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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...

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 book is based on an international conference organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency in March 2001 in Spain. The conference was co-sponsored by the European Commission, Pan American...

This publication contains proceedings of a symposium on Radioactive Residues and the Environment, held in the USA in November 1999. Radioactive residues can originate from several sources and may give...

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...

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...