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Impact of Living or Working Environments on Persons with Disabilities
Series: UNESCAP Working Papers
( Print: December 2007,
PDF: April 2007
)
Persons with disabilities are often the most marginalized and vulnerable groups in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper assesses quantitatively the importance of living or working environmental...
Persons with disabilities are often the most marginalized and vulnerable groups in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper assesses quantitatively the importance of living or working environmental...
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Poverty in the Asia-Pacific
A Survey and Some New Results
Series: UNESCAP Working Papers
( Print: January 2009,
PDF: March 2013
)
This document reviews the literature on the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty, and the results of recent detailed simulation studies applied to economies in the ESCAP...
This document reviews the literature on the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty, and the results of recent detailed simulation studies applied to economies in the ESCAP...
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Workers' Remittances, Economic Growth and Poverty in Developing Asia and the Pacific Countries
Series: UNESCAP Working Papers
( Print: December 2007,
PDF: April 2007
)
This paper examines the impact of workers’ remittances on growth and poverty reduction in developing Asia-Pacific countries using panel data over the period 1993-2003. The results suggests that, while...
This paper examines the impact of workers’ remittances on growth and poverty reduction in developing Asia-Pacific countries using panel data over the period 1993-2003. The results suggests that, while...
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Longer Combination Vehicles (LCV) for Asia and the Pacific Region
Some Economic Implications
Series: UNESCAP Working Papers
( Print: December 2007,
PDF: April 2007
)
Road transport is the most important mode of freight transportation in terms of output in almost all countries in the world, in particular in Asia and the Pacific region. Longer combination vehicles...
Road transport is the most important mode of freight transportation in terms of output in almost all countries in the world, in particular in Asia and the Pacific region. Longer combination vehicles...
Do Environmental Imperatives Present Novel Problems and Opportunities for the International Transfer...
Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: November 1995
)
This publication explores the impact of recent changes in the world economy on progress in the transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies in the post-UNCED setting and endeavours...
This publication explores the impact of recent changes in the world economy on progress in the transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies in the post-UNCED setting and endeavours...
Science and Technology in the New Global Environment
Implications for Developing Countries
Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: August 1996
)
A new publication in this vital and timely series. It deals concisely with the implications of technological and regulatory trends for the developing world, explicitly setting forth a number of main...
A new publication in this vital and timely series. It deals concisely with the implications of technological and regulatory trends for the developing world, explicitly setting forth a number of main...
New Technologies and Technological Capability-Building at the Enterprise Level
Some Policy Implications
Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: August 1996
)
An examination of the opportunities created in the context of a changing global environment. By analyzing the specific features of the process of TCB in new technologies, policy implications and...
An examination of the opportunities created in the context of a changing global environment. By analyzing the specific features of the process of TCB in new technologies, policy implications and...
Promoting the Transfer and Use of Environmentally Sound Technology
A Review of Policies
Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: March 1997
)
The spectrum of the debate on environmentally sound technologies is as lively as the broader debate on environment and development. Amidst the spectrum is the realism that a world where three fourths...
The spectrum of the debate on environmentally sound technologies is as lively as the broader debate on environment and development. Amidst the spectrum is the realism that a world where three fourths...