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- The Bhuj earthquake, which occurred on 26 January 2001 in the State of Gujarat, India, is described and parallels drawn with earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone, Mississippi Valley, USA. Both are ancient failed-rift zones and are intraplate settings located far from plate boundaries. This fact sheet (FS-007-02, March 2002), which includes maps and photographs, has been produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) following visits of US scientists to Gujarat to learn lessons that they could then apply in the USA.
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- Joan Gomberg; Eugene Schweig
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- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0007-02/fs-0007-02.pdf
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- This study examines the impact at a household level of a large community-driven development (CDD) programme in Andhra Pradesh, India, that combines social empowerment with microfinance intervention. Self-help groups (SHGs) of women were the primary channel for delivering interventions. The study uses data from a large household survey and uses female empowerment, nutritional status, consumption, income and assets as measures of the economic and social impacts of the programme. This document, Policy Research Working Paper 4884, was published by The World Bank in March 2009.
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- Klaus Deininger; Yanyan Liu
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4079
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- This note discusses the use of the education sector to pursue the dual objectives of promoting short-term recovery following natural disasters such as earthquakes, and ensuring better disaster preparedness over the medium term. It uses examples of initiatives undertaken following earthquakes in India, Iran, and Japan. The note is Working Paper Series No. 7, one of a series of EAP DRM KnowledgeNotes on disaster risk management in East Asia and the Pacific. It was published by The World Bank in 2010. This note was prepared for the Government of China as part of a series of good practice notes on post-disaster recovery following the Wenchuan Earthquake that struck on 12 May 2008.
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- Kin Bing Wu
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/10133
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- This paper provides an overview of the current status of secondary education in the Asia-Pacific region with insights on countries' policies and experiences relating to financing secondary education including public expenditure, sources of funding, teacher salaries, how free is secondary education, private tutoring, technical and vocational education, aid for secondary education and public-private partnerships. It also discusses related challenges such as decentralization in education, formula funding, mobilisation of additional resources and targeted support to the disadvantaged. This paper was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/resources/e-library/publications/article/financing-of-secondary-education-in-the-asia-pacific-region-synthesis-paper-education-policy-resea/
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- This report reviews and analyzes key educational issues in the areas of education policy and management frameworks, secondary education and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) +6 countries and highlights how the systems can be improved and how educational disparities across the countries can be reduced. This report was published by UNESCO in 2014.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/resources/e-library/publications/article/education-systems-in-asean-6-countries-a-comparative-analysis-of-selected-educational-issues-educa/
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- This study examines the issues associated with recent growth in energy use in China and India, particularly in terms of its effect on local, regional and global emissions. Business as usual and alternative policy intervention scenarios are modelled up to 2050. This document is World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4209, published in April 2007.
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- Zmarak Shalizi
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7056
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- This report examines the potential of reservoirs as a sustainable method of increasing fish production in inland capture fisheries in India, within the context of increasing poverty in fishers, rising demand for fish and limited supplies of land and water. It provides practical guidance on how to select a reservoir, fish stocking policy, rearing fingerlings on-site, harvesting the fish and assessing the economic feasibility of production. This report was published by The WorldFish Center in 2009.
- Author
- K. K. Vass; N. P. Shrivastava; P. K. Katiha; A. K. Das
- Publisher
- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2497.pdf
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- The potential impact of climate change on hydropower is examined by constructing a hydrological model which uses a simple multivariate time series technique. The model is applied to three hydropower projects in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Policy implications for hydropower projects are discussed. This document, Policy Reseach Working Paper 4344, was published by The World Bank in September 2007.
- Author
- Atsushi Iimi
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7332
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- This report studies the informal, unorganized sector in India, documenting key facts about the sector in manufacturing and services and investigating the conditions that promote transformation by state-industry, with the result of the analysis revealing that entrepreneurship and larger organized sector plants are most important for transitions in manufacturing while small establishments play a key role in the services sector. This report was published by The World Bank in 2013.
- Author
- Ejaz Ghani; William R. Kerr; Stephen D. O'Connell
- Publisher
- The World Bank
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15593
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- This report presents the results of a project which took place between 2007 and 2009 in Dhamara fishing harbour in Orissa State and Mangrol fishing harbour in Gujarat State in India. This project was implemented to build the technical knowledge and institutional capacity to upgrade fishing harbours to internationally accepted standards necessary for fish quality assurance.
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- Susana V. Siar; Venugopal Venkatesan; B. N. Krishnamurthy; J. A. Sciortino
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/3/a-am432e/index.html
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- This report describes the implementation of the Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger (FMFH) initiative in four regions of India. FMFH is a global education initiative from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aimed at introducing young people to the issues of hunger, malnutrition, and food security. This document, RAP Publication 2007/04, was published by the FAO in 2007. This section, part 1 of 2 provides the contents list, introduction and a discussion of the evolution of the initiative and methodology. Part 2 is also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Lalita Bhattacharjee; Valeria Menza; Biplab K Nandi
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ag119e/ag119e00.pdf
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- This report describes the implementation of the Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger (FMFH) initiative in four regions of India. FMFH is a global education initiative from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aimed at introducing young people to the issues of hunger, malnutrition, and food security. This document, RAP Publication 2007/04, was published by the FAO in 2007. This section, part 2 of 2, provides the results and conclusions. Part 1 is also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Lalita Bhattacharjee; Valeria Menza; Biplab K Nandi
- Publisher
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ag119e/ag119e01.pdf
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- This document summarises the findings from eight individual country case studies which examine feed and fertiliser use in sustainable aquaculture development in Asia. It is part of a detailed overview of feed and fertiliser use in sustainable aquaculture development in developing countries including individual country case studies, synthesis papers and the report of a workshop. The full report, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No.497, was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Sena S De Silva; Mohammad R Hasan
- Publisher
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1444e/a1444e02.pdf
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- This book examines a number of recent energy efficiency programmes in developing countries and transition economies. It reviews successes and failures and brings together lessons learned. Topics discussed include: the persistence of energy inefficiency; models for delivering energy efficiency investments; identifying and developing energy efficiency investment projects; the delivery of financing; and, investment delivery mechanisms. The country case studies include China and India. This book, no.42529, was published by The World Bank in 2008.
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- Robert P Taylor; Chandrasekar Govindarajalu; Jeremy Levin; Anke S Meyer; William A Ward
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6349
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- This brief report examines improvements that could be made to increase the poor's access to fish in five South Asian countries including Bangladesh and India as a way of meeting rising demand and contributing to poverty reduction and rural development.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2467.pdf
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- This paper provides a global overview of beach seine fisheries (including a field study from India) and identifies key issues related to the responsible use of beach seines and the sustainable livelihoods of beach seine fishers.
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- Uwe Tietze; Robert Lee; Susana Siar; Thomas Moth-Poulson; Hans E. Bage (editors)
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/3/a-i2117e/index.html
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- This document briefly introduces flexible learning strategies as an alternative method for learners to gain basic literacy and numeracy competencies and the life skills needed to thrive. It describes the benefits of flexible learning strategies, the five main concepts of flexible learning strategies and examples of country experiences of this learning strategy (including Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines). This document was published by UNESCO.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002230/223023e.pdf
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- This report provides country case studies from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam to analyse the nature, outcomes and effectiveness of particular policy responses to Asia's food price spikes and the immediate and longer term food security issues.
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- Sisira Jayasuriya; Purushottam Mudbhary; Sumiter Singh Broca
- Publisher
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3031e/i3031e00.htm
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- This report assesses the vulnerability of the water resources in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Helmand and Indus River Basins and includes an overview of the freshwater resources of South Asia. It was published by UNEP in 2008.
- Author
- Mukand S. Babel; Shahriar M. Wahid
- Publisher
- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/pdf/southasia_report.pdf
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- This report discusses the importance of gender equality, how far gender equality in education has developed, obstacles to its progress, the reasons for focusing on secondary education and literacy for girls and women, examples of improving education for girls and women and how to build environments for gender-sensitive and gender-responsive education. Case studies from Bangladesh, Indonesia, China, Myanmar, Cambodia, India are included. This report was published by UNESCO in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/resources/online-materials/single-view/news/from_access_to_equality_empowering_girls_and_women_through_literacy_and_secondary_education/#.Uzvdk6hkQ1I
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- This article describes the Genetic Improvement of Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) project, which involved the development of methods for genetic enhancement of tropical finfish using Nile tilapia as a test species, and describes the impacts of the project on the adoption of these methods for other species and the dissemination of improved breeds in several countries in Asia and the Pacific. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2004.
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- M. V. Gupta; B. O. Acosta
- Publisher
- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/naga27-3n4/pdf/article01.pdf
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- This policy research report highlights the potential for successful economic development of any country if it develops industries that are consistent with its comparative advantage (the flying geese pattern). Countries like China, India and Brazil are currently transforming from flying geese to leading dragons through their movement from low-skilled, labor-intensive manufacturing jobs, leaving these industries open to countries with lower income levels such as Africa. This report covers the mechanics and benefits of structural change, intellectual lessons from failures and successes of structural transformation and a unique window of opportunity for Africa: the graduation of China (and other middle-income countries). This report was published by The World Bank in 2011.
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- Justin Yifu Lin
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3466
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- This report analyses data from 524 villages in five states in India to assess the impact of community forestry in these areas. The report seeks to find out who participates in community forestry and how this participation affects household fuelwood consumption. This report was published by The World Bank in 2004.
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- Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay; Priya Shyamsundar
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/14046
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- This report describes the economic and social costs of excessive or inefficient groundwater extraction by farmers in India. It goes on to describe how policies related to both water and electricity can improve on efficiency and promote more sustainable use of groundwater in agriculture. This report was published by the World Bank in 2010.
- Author
- Jon Strand
- Publisher
- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3976
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- This article describes the Fish Supply and Demand in Asia project which profiled key technologies in aquaculture and fisheries; analysed policies, the institutional environment and the support services to assess policy options; drew a socioeconomic profile of major stakeholders in the sectors; analysed projections for fish supply and demand in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam; and formulated action plans based on the findings. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2004.
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- M. Briones; M. M. Dey; M. Ahmed
- Publisher
- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/na_2321.pdf
