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Health and Economics: Focus on HIV/AIDS in Myanmar
Principal economist Myo Thant of ADB’s Office of Regional Economic Integration talks about the impact of HIV/AIDS on Myanmar’s economy.
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Myanmar: Jobs, Trade and Good Government
ADB is stepping up its presence in Myanmar with the launch of an Interim Country Partnership Strategy (ICPS). Principal Country Specialist Winfried Wicklein, from ADB’s Southeast Asia Department, explains what the next steps will be.
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Countries of the Mekong River: 12 Things to Know
The six member countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion Program mark 20 years of economic cooperation in 2012.
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Food Security in Asia: The 2007-2008 Food Price Crisis
In 2007-2008, rice prices surged dramatically. Export restrictions by key rice exporting countries, India and Viet Nam, combined with the panic buying of major rice importing countries, such as the Philippines, jacked up world rice prices by 117%-149% in the first quarter of 2008. The effect was devastating as close to a billion people plunged into poverty. Another price spike occurred in 2011, this time spurred by Russia's ban on wheat exports because of a severe drought in the country. An additional 44 million reportedly swelled the ranks of the poor. -
ADB Delegation Meets Myanmar's Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
An ADB delegation led by Stephen P. Groff, Vice President for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, met with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Nay Pyi Taw on 19 August to exchange views on Myanmar's development challenges. The National League for Democracy parliamentarian emphasized the importance of empowerment and promoting sustainable, inclusive economic development and job creation. During the meeting, ADB's re-engagement with Myanmar, as part of an ongoing consultation process with a broad range of stakeholders, was also discussed. -
Timor-Leste: Promoting Small Business in the Pacific
Access to financial instruments for small businesses is key to promoting sustainable growth in the Pacific region according to ADB's latest Pacific Economic Monitor. -
Ensuring Food Security for Asia and the Pacific
Food security depends on trade as much as it does on production. Rice is a staple food in Asia, and around 90% of the world's rice is produced and consumed in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations* (ASEAN) countries. Despite having almost half of the world's export rice supply, rice trade is still low within the ASEAN region. Lourdes S. -
Asian Bond Markets and Financial System
ASEAN+3 launched the Asian Bond Markets Initiative in 2002 to improve the resilience of the financial system. This year we celebrate 10 years. -
Facts and Data about ASEAN Infrastructure
By establishing the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund, ASEAN would be taking a major step towards investing more if its resources in its own development needs.
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Economic Data: Southeast Asia, the People's Republic of China and India
A new ADB-ADBI publication looks at how the economies of ASEAN, People's Republic of China and India might fare by 2030. -
Tourism to Help the Poor in Asia
The idea that tourists swimming in a jungle waterfall or strolling around an ancient temple can help reduce poverty seems too good to be true. But it is a fact: an increasing body of research clearly demonstrates that tourism can help the poor. -
The Asian Development Bank and the World Wide Fund for Nature
The Asian Development Bank and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) recently marked the 10th anniversary of their partnership. Over the years, the organizations have collaborated on sustainable environmental development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), the Coral Triangle (CTI), the Heart of Borneo (HoB), and the Living Himalayas (LHI), and water and climate change as cross-cutting themes. -
Health in the Pacific: 12 Things to Know
Good health is a prerequisite to development - healthy people help communities grow and economies prosper.
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Fiscal Discipline Can Help the Pacific Navigate Global Financial Instability
Recent uncertainties over sovereign debt in the Eurozone and U.S. fiscal policy are expected to have only direct limited impact on the Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste. The economies are largely insulated from these ongoing problems as they are more closely tied to the economies of Australia and New Zealand. Growth prospects of Australia and New Zealand remain relatively buoyant due to strong demand from Asian markets for their commodity exports. -
Coral Triangle - The Amazon of the Seas - is at Risk
The Coral Triangle covers 5.7 million square kilometers of ocean waters in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste. The area is considered as the global center of tropical marine diversity, supporting the highest number of species of coral reef fishes, and turtles. The mangrove forests, coral reefs, and coastal and offshore waters are the most species-rich in the tropics. -
Ahead of the Curve: Giving Climate Change its Due Attention
In this interview, ADB project officer Chen Chen talked about successfully retrofitting an approved project to include climate proofing measures, thereby reducing vulnerabilities.