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Joint Statement Between ASEAN and China on Further Deepening the Cooperation on Infrastructure Connectivity
For the long-term cooperation and common prosperity of ASEAN and China, on the basis of equality, mutual benefit, and in accordance with domestic laws and regulations, ASEAN an...
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The SDGs - What are the "Means of Implementation"?
A major shortcoming of the MDGs was the failure to spell out clearly the resources required for implementation. The latest proposals for the SDGs attempt to do so more comprehen...
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SDG indicators and analysis: From systemic perspective
Outline; Background; SDG indicators and data collection; Framework of SDG indicators; Implications for national SDGs; implementation, monitoring and reporting
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China as a development actor in Southeast Asia
This Evidence Report identifies and explains the central factors driving China’s policies towards Southeast Asia. It examines China’s foreign relations through the perspective o...
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Asian Development Outlook 2017 Update: Sustaining Development Through Public-Private Partnership
Update on financial forecast for developing Asia.
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Rome Declaration on World Food Security
Strategic Objectives and Commitments and Actions for World Food Security.
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Global Education Monitoring Report Gender Review 2018: Meeting our Commitments to Gender Equality in Education
In this sixth Gender Review, in a series that began in 2011, the Global Education Monitoring Report team maintains the focus on a broad conception of gender equality that extend...
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Gender and Extreme Poverty
While many data gaps remain, we know that women are vulnerable to extreme poverty because they face greater burdens of unpaid work, have fewer assets and productive resources th...
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Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity
This book shines a spotlight on the value of voice and agency, the patterns of constraints that limit their realization, and the associated costs, not only to individual women b...
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Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters
This report moves beyond asset and production losses and focuses instead on how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Here, natural disaster risk and losses are measured...
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Nature-Based Solutions for Building Resilient Cities
These examples from the Greater Mekong Subregion demonstrate approaches of immediate relevance for other towns and regions throughout Asia with extensive coastlines, riverine an...
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The Lower Mekong Dams Factsheet Text
The governments of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are planning to build eleven large hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong River. If built, these dams would destroy the riv...
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ASEAN 4.0: What does the Fourth Industrial Revolution mean for regional economic integration?
This paper focuses on the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to a set of h...
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Asia SME Finance Monitor 2014
The ASM reviews various aspects of SME finance within different countries. These aspects include the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. The main objectives of ...
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Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Report of the Secretary-General
Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 70/1, the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the United Nations system, has the honour to submit the report on progress towards the S...
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Generating Sustainable Energy Solutions in the Mekong River Basin
Negative effects brought on by the poor planning for hydropower development in the Mekong basin will put the 60 million people living in the Mekong basin at risk and severely im...
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Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimen...
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The state of the world's children report 2015 statistical tables
UNICEF's most recent key statistics on child survival, development and protection for the world’s countries, areas and regions. The statistical tables in this volume support UNI...
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Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums
On 1 January 2016, the world officially began implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—the transformative plan of action based on 17 Sustainable Development...
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Population density from 1995 to 2000 Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
Population density of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam based on data from the World Data Bank. This dataset also includes a visualization of the data using CartoDB...