Construction Industry Advance and Change: Progress in Eight Asian Economies since 1995, Jianfu Shen, Michael Anson, Patrick Lam, Yat Hung Chiang

Автор: Krichewsky Damien
Название: Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Responsiveness
ISBN: 1108485367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108485364
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Analyses the rapid growth in the significance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in relation to broader political and economic changes induced by India`s `pro-business` development strategy.

Автор: Hilmar ?or Hilmarsson
Название: International Financial Institutions, Climate Change and the Urgency to Facilitate Clean Energy Investment in Developing and Emerging Market Economies
ISBN: 1536128899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536128895
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: Climate change is perhaps among the most serious challenges that humankind has ever faced and perhaps the greatest market failure the world has ever seen. At the same time, clean unutilized energy resources around the world are available that could help remedy climate and environmental problems while also improving peoples lives. It is likely that most of the increased demand for energy in the future will be in the developing and emerging world. This is also where most unutilized clean energy sources are located. The challenge of climate change requires strong comprehensive and firm action from the international community. Clean energy projects tend to be large, capital intensive and long term. They require long term commitment from all the players involved as well as mutual trust. International financial institutions (IFIs), including the World Bank Group and regional development banks can play a key role in promoting the use of clean energy sources by facilitating clean energy investment in developing and emerging markets. This book focuses on those challenges, mainly using geothermal energy projects as examples, but also by providing an example of a large hydropower project to illustrate how the funding and risk mitigation instruments of IFIs, as well as national agencies such as export credit agencies (ECA)s, have been used to mobilize funds in a difficult investment environment. The book is divided into eleven chapters. Chapter One discusses the current global investment regime and the absence of an international organization for investments comparable to the World Trade Organization that focuses on cross border trade. Chapter Two examines the World Bank Group and its emphasis on loans instead of guarantees for capital mobilization. Chapter Three discusses international financial institutions, including regional development banks and their risk mitigation instruments. Chapter Four focuses on how IFIs can make more use of their instruments to support cross border clean energy projects in developing and emerging economies. Chapter Five assesses the effectiveness of the risk mitigation instruments used by the World Bank Group. Chapter Six analyses the upfront development costs associated with geothermal development and geothermal projects. Chapter Seven analyses the costs and benefits of deploying public-private partnerships for clean energy projects. Chapter Eight focuses on contested multilateralism and the recent establishment of new international financial institutions under Chinese leadership, i.e. the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development (BRICS) Bank. Chapter Nine examines Iceland with its geothermal cluster as well as how developing and emerging countries could learn from Icelands experience. Chapter Ten analyses selected cross border clean energy projects, including geothermal and hydropower, and shows how various funding and risk mitigation instruments have been used in practice. Chapter Eleven stresses the urgency for global action to address the climate crisis facing humankind. Finally, the concluding chapter shows how international financial institutions can be key instruments for successful global climate solutions. The book draws on the authors experience in three continents (Africa, Asia and Europe) as a staff member of the World Bank Group.

Название: Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management in Development: Progress and Lessons Learned from ADB Experience in the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience
ISBN: 929257955X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292579555
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds, of which ADB is a major partner in Asia and the Pacific, delivering investments through six country programs (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, and Tonga) and one regional program for the Pacific. This study looks back at the development of PPCR funding from an ADB perspective, documents the contributions of the PPCR to country readiness for adaptation planning and climate finance, and identifies some early lessons learned from Cambodia, Nepal, and Tajikistan.

Автор: ESCAP
Название: Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2020
ISBN: 9211208076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211208078
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This report analyses trends as well as data availability for monitoring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific and its five subregions. It assesses gaps which must be closed to achieve the goals by 2030. This assessment is designed to ensure the region’s actions remain on target, shortcomings are addressed as they arise, and all interested parties remain engaged. It is an invaluable resource for all stakeholders involved in prioritization, planning, implementation and follow-up of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific.

Название: Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2021
ISBN: 921120822X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211208221
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2021 analyses trends as well as data availability for monitoring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia-Pacific and its five subregions. It assesses gaps that must be closed to achieve the goals by 2030. This assessment is designed to ensure that the region's actions remain on target, shortcomings are addressed as they arise, and all interested parties remain engaged. This edition also explores the impact of COVID-19 on achieving the 2030 Agenda, with inputs from partner UN agencies.

Автор: Asian Development Bank
Название: The Social Protection Indicator for the Pacific: Assessing Progress
ISBN: 9292616684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292616687
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This publication provides updates on social protection indicators for 13 Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank. It presents an analysis of 2015 data on social protection programs, particularly the substantial progress in expenditure and benefit size between 2009 and 2015. Yet, spending favored the nonpoor over the poor, and the gap in spending on men and on women widened. The Social Protection Index—now the Social Protection Indicator—was developed by ADB and its partners as the first comprehensive and quantitative measure of social protection systems in Asia and the Pacific.

Автор: Asian Development Bank
Название: Carec Tourism Strategy 2030
ISBN: 9292625659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292625658
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Tourism Strategy 2030 sets out the long-term vision, objectives, programs, and targets to promote sustainable, safe, and inclusive tourism development in the region.

The strategy also aims to enhance the region’s attraction as a competitive tourism destination globally. It builds upon countries’ efforts to develop their tourism sectors as well as existing initiatives being implemented by development partners. It adopts a holistic approach, covering five strategic pillars: connectivity and infrastructure, quality and standards, skills development, marketing and branding, and market intelligence. The strategy also mainstreams six cross-cutting themes: health, safety, and security; digitalization; gender equality; environmental sustainability; private sector participation; and universal access to tourism services.

Автор: Asian Development Bank
Название: Improving Education, Skills, and Employment in Tourism: Almaty-Bishkek Economic Corridor
ISBN: 929261570X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292615703
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This report measures the skills gap among tourism industry workers and the resulting opportunity costs along the Almaty–Bishkek Economic Corridor in Central Asia. The skills gap analysis identifies an annual lack of about 8,500 trained professionals in the tourism industry along the region which is causing opportunity costs of more than $30 million per year. The Almaty–Bishkek Economic Corridor has an exceptional heritage and wealth of culture and nature. This combination results in a high potential for tourism development that is largely untapped.

Название: Asian Economic Integration Report 2019/2020: Demographic Change, Productivity, and the Role of Technology
ISBN: 9292618563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292618568
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This report reviews economic cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific and looks at how technology could boost productivity in aging economies. This publication examines trade and global value chains, cross-border investment, financial integration, the movement of people, and subregional cooperation. The theme chapter of this year's report explores the potential of technology to boost productivity in aging economies. It discusses how countries can promote and adopt innovations to turn demographic challenges into opportunities. The report covers the 49 member countries of ADB in Asia and the Pacific.

Название: Greening Development in the People`s Republic of China: A Dynamic Partnership with the Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292690345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292690342
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This report underscores the dynamic partnership of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and ADB in environmental protection and ecological conservation, rural economy, green livable cities, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.The green development partnership between the PRC and ADB has evolved over the years. In the report, best practices, innovations, and lessons learned from this partnership offer insights for ADB, its developing member countries, and other development partners. The report also presents forward-looking directions for further collaboration by the PRC and ADB in pursuit of a more sustainable future.

Автор: Asian Development Bank
Название: The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in Fiji: Country Diagnostics Assessment
ISBN: 9292615041 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292615048
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Fiji, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments. It explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related demand and supply constraints; and opportunities for improvement. The assessment forms one of a series of country diagnostics undertaken using a common methodology to determine the state of the enabling environment for disaster risk financing.

Автор: Asian Development Bank
Название: Multihazard Risk Atlas of Maldives - Volume IV: Biodiversity
ISBN: 9292620517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292620516
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Multihazard Risk Atlas of Maldives is composed of Geography—Volume I, Climate and Geophysical Hazards—Volume II, Economy and Demographics—Volume III, Biodiversity—Volume IV, and Summary—Volume V.

This atlas provides spatial information about Maldives and thematic maps necessary for assessing future development investments in terms of climate risks and geophysical hazards. It is also intended to support the formulation of cobeneficial options for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management. The five-volume atlas is a major output of the project “Establishing a National Geospatial Database for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Activities and Policies in Maldives” under the Asian Development Bank’s regional knowledge and support (capacity development) technical assistance Action on Climate Change in South Asia (2013–2018).