Planning for development in rapidly urbanizing Asia requires a fresh look. This book analyzes emerging urbanization patterns and explores the potential of city cluster development in Asia. City cluster development takes into account the provision of infrastructure and services in connection with spark potentials of economic growth and dispenses with the urban

This report presents South Asia-wide review of climate change adaptation research, intended to identify present knowledge, gaps on adaptation and application including the practice of research. This scoping study makes a distinction between planned and autonomous adaptation strategies including ways in which social and physical infrastructure enable adaptation.

This is a summary of a report on climate change adaptation research knowledge and capacity gaps in China, commissioned by DFID (UK) and IDRC (Canada) to consider support for a programme of applied research on climate adaptation in Asia.

There is mounting evidence that climate change is triggering a shrinking and thinning of many glaciers world-wide which may eventually put at risk water supplies for hundreds of millions

The annual Asian Development Outlook aims to present an analysis of the recent past and forecasts for the next couple of years for the developing economies of Asia. The Update presents four thematic chapters discussing recent global commodity price rises and their impacts on developing Asia. They suggest that high international commodity prices are here to stay. But, given that demand-pull rather than cost-push factors are causing high prices, the role of monetary policy is still relevant in containing price pressures.

Tens of billions of dollars must be spent on protecting millions of people living on the coasts of Asia Pacific if climate change-induced disasters are not to wreak havoc and eradicate decades of development, warns World Vision.

Various factors can modify the health effects of outdoor air pollution. Prior findings about modifiers are inconsistent, and most of these studies were conducted in developed countries. The researchers conducted a time-series analysis to examine the modifying effect of season, sex, age, and education on the association between outdoor air pollutants [particulate matter

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered new ways to measure poverty in Asia and Pacific and fixed US$1.35 a day as a new poverty line for the region.

In a report released on Wednesday, the ADB provided a comparable rates of poverty using price data specific to the Asia and Pacific region, and, critically, to the poor.

Bs Reporter / New Delhi August 27, 2008, 19:05 IST

Asian Development Bank (ADB) today released a new poverty line, called the Asian Poverty Line to measure the poverty in the Asia and Pacific region. The poverty line is roughly $ 1.35 per day.

This new measure is contained in ADB's annual statistical publication, "Key Indicators 2008".If this measure is used, roughly two-thirds of India's population or around 740 million are in poverty.

NEW DELHI: The Asian Development Bank has offered a new way to measure poverty in the Asia and Pacific region, a day after the World Bank issued an update based on revised norms. The new poverty line, called the

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