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Millennium Development Goals in the Pacific: Relevance and Progress (Publication Stock No. 020303) At the Monterrey Conference in March 2002, multilateral development banks, including the ADB, reached a consensus to relate their long-term strategic frameworks to the Millennium Development Goals and to examine how the MDGs could be reflected in country strategies and programs. This report presents ADB’s first steps in this direction for its Pacific developing member countries.	Asian Development Bank Annual Report 2003 With the strong support of ADB, the Asia and Pacific region has continued its progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Overall poverty rates in the region have fallen, and growth has continued. Many of ADB’s members have made investments in health and nutrition, which have reduced maternal and child mortality rates and lowered the incidence of communicable diseases. Asian Development Outlook ISSN 0117-0481 Price: $36 (paperback) ADO 2004 asserts that the Asia and Pacific region continued to be the most dynamic region in the world in 2003, growing at 6.3%. Despite uncertainties generated by the Iraq conflict, high oil prices, SARS, and a slow recovery in major industrial countries, the region’s developing economies generally showed remarkable resilience. Intraregional trade and strong consumer demand will define the outlook for developing Asia in 2004–2005. The ADO 2004 includes a chapter on foreign direct investment in developing Asia.
Swimming Against the Tide? An Assessment of the Private Sector in the Pacific ISBN 971-561-534-1 Price: $10 (paperback) A robust and vibrant private sector is vital to the Pacific region’s longterm economic growth and improved quality of life and is a necessary condition for sustained poverty reduction. This publication identifies many issues facing the private sector in ADB’s Pacific DMCs.
While Stocks Last The Live Reef Food Fish Trade ISBN 971-561-498-1 Price: $10 (paperback) This book provides scientific evidence for the need to curb and manage the capture of wild live reef food fish, and proposes ways to help entrepreneurs and fishers reform the trade based on limiting fish capture and hatchery rearing the fish.	Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas of the Environment ISBN 971-561-499-X Price: $40 (paperback) $60 (hardback) The Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas of the Environment champions the environment of a unique part of Asia, an area straddled by rivers great and small, with bountiful watersheds, wetlands, and forests. The Atlas captures for the first time in one volume maps, remote sensing images, and essential information on one of the most culturally, ethnically, and above all, biologically diverse regions in the world.

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