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- This paper considers how China can accelerate their technology development and the most cost-effective measures to achieve this. It examines China's current manufacturing capabilities and lessons that can be learned from other leading exporting countries and late-starting economies and discusses supporting universities and creating links with businesses, establishing channels for focusing research and diffusing research findings and creating urban centres that attract innovation activities.
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- Shahid Yusuf; Kaoru Nabeshima
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7268
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- Using case studies from countries including Cambodia and Bangladesh, this report provides a framework to analyze the governance context for aquatic agricultural system development focusing on stakeholder representation, distribution of power and mechanisms of accountability. This report was published by The WorldFish Center in 2012.
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- Blake D. Ratner; Benoy Barman; Philippa Cohen; Mam Kosal; Joseph Nagoli; Edward H. Allison
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_3121.pdf
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- This report discusses the prevalence of natural disasters across the entire East Asia and Pacific region and the disaster risk management (DRM) strategies that are being undertaken in order to nullify the threat from these disasters. It goes on to describe the key trends related to the disaster impacts in the region, the process of disaster risk management and a glossary of key terminology. This report was published by The World Bank in 2013.
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- Abhas K. Jha; Zuzana Stanton-Geddes
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/13108
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- This brief report includes an overview of the fisheries sector in the Philippines, a projection of fish demand, supply and imports and exports and the technology priorities for aquaculture, capture fisheries and postharvest. This report was published by The WorldFish Center in 2008.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_1027.pdf
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- This report presents a framework to assess risks associated with energy security, water scarcity and climate change for the real estate sector in Southeast Asia. The analysis considers current and planned commercial office buildings in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, with a particular focus on the Indian market given the large size of its real estate market and data availability. It also discusses financial opportunities in the region's growing green building market.
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- Shally Venugopal; Dana Krechowicz; Deepa Shinde; Charanjit Singh; Roshan Padamadan
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/surveying-risk-building-opportunity
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- This comprehensive document reports on a two year study of China's current energy status and the actions required for integrated, national, sustainable energy development. It covers: recent trends in China's energy consumption and supply; controlling future energy consumption; the potential environmental impacts of prospective energy growth; energy supply security; energy pricing; and, the development of a national energy policy. The document, one of a series of Directions in Development: Energy and Mining, and document no.39038, was published by The World Bank in 2007.
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- Noureddine Berrah; Fei Feng; Roland Priddle; Leiping Wang
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6625
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- This leaflet provides a brief introduction to sustainable, low-cost technologies that can increase the production and productivity of mola and other small fish species in wetland areas of Bangladesh. It was published by The WorldFish Center in 2014.
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- S. H. Thilsted; M. A. Wahab
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/AAS-2014-07.pdf
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- Lessons learned from planning for hydropower development in two river basins in India's Himalayan region are outlined in this note. It argues for a more holistic approach incorporating river basin planning and potential social and environmental issues across multiple projects and the entire river basin. This document is Gridlines Note no.41, published in August 2008 by The World Bank. Gridlines is a publication which shares emerging knowledge on public-private partnership and gives an overview of a wide selection of projects from various regions of the world.
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- Michael Haney; Judith Plummer
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/10597
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- This report evaluates private sector provision of piped water services and on-site sanitation services in rural areas and small towns as an alternative to the limited capacity of public resources to meet the needs of the poor in access to water and sanitation services. It includes a detailed discussion of water and sanitation services including an overview of each of these sectors, problems surrounding access, market potential for private investment, what affects demand and how each service is supplied as well as recommendations for implementation. Case studies of example services in Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Indonesia, Peru and Tanzania are included. This report was published by The World Bank in 2014.
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- Jemima Sy; Robert Warner; Jane Jamieson
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16538
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- This report analyses the educational and political economy in which Indonesia's 2005 Teacher and Lecturer Law was formulated and implemented; describes the structures, strategies and processes that arose from the law and assesses this law's impact on teacher subject and pedagogical knowledge, classroom skills and motivation and student outcomes. This report was published by WorldBank in 2014.
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- Mae Chu Chang; Sheldon Shaeffer; Samer Al-Samarrai; Andrew B. Ragatz; Joppe de Ree; Ritchie Stevenson
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16355
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- This report (in 4 parts) provides a description of agricultural trade policies in Peru, Tanzania and Thailand. For each country, the trade policies and trends pertaining to a number of key agricultural products are described, including tariff rates, non-tariff restrictions and other factors. This part includes an introduction to the document and the rationale behind its creation, before describing the structure of the report. A table of contents is also provided. This report was published by the FAO in 2010.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/al668e/al668e00.htm
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- This report (in 4 parts) provides a description of agricultural trade policies in Peru, Tanzania and Thailand. For each country, the trade policies and trends pertaining to a number of key agricultural products are described, including tariff rates, non-tariff restrictions and other factors. This part includes results of a survey of trade policies in Peru, describing the country's various trade policies. Data about tariff rates and other elements of trade policy is provided in tabular form. This report was published by the FAO in 2010.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/al668e/al668e00.htm
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- This report (in 4 parts) provides a description of agricultural trade policies in Peru, Tanzania and Thailand. For each country, the trade policies and trends pertaining to a number of key agricultural products are described, including tariff rates, non-tariff restrictions and other factors. This part includes results of a survey of trade policies in Tanzania, describing the country's various trade policies. An introduction to the findings is provided and the methodology used in the study is also described. Data about tariff rates and other elements of trade policy is provided in tabular form. This report was published by the FAO in 2010.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/al668e/al668e00.htm
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- This report (in 4 parts) provides a description of agricultural trade policies in Peru, Tanzania and Thailand. For each country, the trade policies and trends pertaining to a number of key agricultural products are described, including tariff rates, non-tariff restrictions and other factors. This part includes results of a survey of trade policies in Thailand, describing the country's various trade policies. Data about tariff rates and other elements of trade policy is provided in tabular form. This report was published by the FAO in 2010.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/al668e/al668e00.htm
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- This report presents an overview of the current state of forests and forestry in Thailand and discusses the probable scenarios for forestry development.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/am617e/am617e00.pdf
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- A country profile of Thailand, discussing topics such as geography, climate, population, economy, agriculture, water resources and water use, irrigation and drainage development, and water management. Relevant information sources are provided. The resource forms part of the AQUASTAT global information system on water and agriculture, provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries_regions/THA/index.stm
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- A fact sheet about Thailand, containing information about land and population, water resources, water withdrawal and water managed areas. The resource forms part of the AQUASTAT global information system on water and agriculture, provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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- A calendar of crop irrigation in Thailand showing areas irrigated each month in 2007 for several different crops. The resource forms part of the AQUASTAT global information system on water and agriculture, provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/water_use_agr/CC_PDF/CC_THA.pdf
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- A description of irrigation areas in Thailand, with a general overview, references where applicable, and a list of the irrigated areas, including size in hectares. The resource forms part of the AQUASTAT global information system on water and agriculture, provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/irrigationmap/tha/index.stm
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- A fact sheet providing information about renewable water resources in Thailand, broken down by internal and external renewable water resources, and a summary total. The resource forms part of the AQUASTAT global information system on water and agriculture, provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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- This brief report examines the potential impact of current and future environmental changes at the Third Pole (the Arctic, the Antarctic, the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountains) on the lives of people living downstream in the basins of Asia's major river systems which are fed by the glacier meltwater. It considers the biodiversity changes, the hydrological hazards and the social and economic impacts. This report was published in 2011.
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- T. D. Yao; L. G. Thompson; V. Musbrugger; Y. M. Ma; F. Zhang; X. X. Yang; D. Joswiak
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/SC/pdf/sc_env_Third_Pole_EN.pdf
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- This report examines how the fisheries and aquaculture sector is affected by climate change including the significance of fisheries and aquaculture, the nature of the climate change threat, the need to adapt to climate change and strategies for coping with climate change. This report was published by The WorldFish Center in 2007.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/ClimateChange2.pdf
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- This document reports on a trip to eight fishing villages affected by the flood pulses of the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia which took place to assess the current status of those communities' aquatic agricultural production systems (fish, rice, aquaculture); livelihoods, poverty and gender equity; value chains and markets; institutions and governance and knowledge management and partnerships. This document was published by The WorldFish Center in 2013.
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- G. Johnstone
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/AAS-2013-28.pdf
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- This brief report outlines ways the agriculture sector can address the long-term challenges it faces including increasing sustainable productivity, safeguarding nutritional quality and the diversity of food and farming systems while limiting the environmental, cultural, health and social impacts of agricultural practices. This report was published in 2009.
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- Guillen Calvo; Maria Fonte; Jack Heinemann; Marcia Ishii-Eiteman; Janice Jiggins; Roger Leakey; Cristina Plencovich
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001818/181854e.pdf
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- This document studies the role of gender equity in improving the outcomes in aquatic agricultural systems, presents one approach to gender and social analysis and examines gender disparities in five countries including Bangladesh, Cambodia and the Philippines. This report was published by The WorldFish Center in 2012.
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- N. Weeratunge; T. M. Chiuta; A. Choudhury; A. Ferrer; S. M. C. Husken; Y. Kura; K. Kusakabe; E. Madzudzo; R. Maetala; R. T. Naved; A. Schwarz; P. Kantor
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_3348.pdf
