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Book Review: Asian Development Bank, Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012Asian Development Bank, Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012, ADB, Manila
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Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012, the 43rd edition of this series, is a statistical data book presenting economic, financial, social, and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).Abstract:
Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012, the 43rd edition of this series, is a statistical data book presenting economic, financial, social, and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This issue of Key Indicators presents in Part I a special chapter—Green Urbanization in Asia—followed by statistical tables in Parts II and III with short, nontechnical commentaries on economic, financial, social, and environmental developments. Part II comprises the first set of statistical tables and commentaries, which look at the Millennium Development Goals and progress in the region toward achieving key targets. The second set of tables in Part III is grouped into seven themes, and provides a broader picture of economic, financial, social, and environmental developments. This publication aims to present the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and the Pacific to a wide audience, including policy makers, development practitioners, government officials, researchers, students, and the general public. This year, ADB also publishes the second edition of the Framework of Inclusive Growth Indicators, a special supplement to Key Indicators.read more
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Tracking the Middle-income Trap: What Is It, Who Is in It, and Why?
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The New ‘Passive Revolution’ of the Green Economy and Growth Discourse: Maintaining the ‘Sustainable Development’ of Neoliberal Capitalism
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A review on energy pattern and policy for transportation sector in Malaysia
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Tracking the Middle-income Trap: What Is It, Who Is in It, and Why?
TL;DR: In this article, a working definition of the middle-income trap is provided, and the threshold number of years for a country to be in the middle income trap is calculated, where a country that becomes lower-middle-income has to attain an average growth rate of per capita income of at least 4.7 percent per annum to avoid falling into the lower middle-classification.
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Dams on the Mekong River: Lost fish protein and the implications for land and water resources
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of dams in the Lower Mekong Basin on fish catch and food security was investigated. And the authors suggest that basic food security is potentially at a high risk of disruption and therefore basin stakeholders should fully engage in strategies to offset these impacts.
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Urban water security: A review
TL;DR: A systems approach can be helpful to comprehend the complexity of the urban system, including its relation with its (global) environment, and better understand the dynamics of urban water security.
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The New ‘Passive Revolution’ of the Green Economy and Growth Discourse: Maintaining the ‘Sustainable Development’ of Neoliberal Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that green economy/growth discourse can be seen as a Gramscian "passive revolution" whereby the dominant sustainable development discourse, subsumed by capitalist hegemony, is protected in the context of global environmental, economic and development crises.
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A review on energy pattern and policy for transportation sector in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the trends of energy pattern and emission of road transport in Malaysia and found that there is an urgent need to adopt suitable energy policy to balance the energy demand and reduce emission in this sector.