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    Asian Development Bank and Tonga: Fact Sheet

    Asian Development Bank | July 2006
    Abstract
    Updated yearly, this ADB Fact Sheet provides social and economic indicators on Tonga as well as concise information on ADB's operations in the country and contact information. The Pacific nation of Tonga has made progress toward achieving many of the targets in the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for poverty reduction. Steadily improving general health indicators join high literacy rates and good school enrollment ratios, although lifestyle diseases have increased rapidly. Against this progress, social services in Nuku’alofa are deteriorating and sanitation, drainage, roads, and waste disposal are in need of attention. Some 23% of Tongan households are estimated to experience periodic difficulties in meeting their basic needs. There are signs of rising ruralurban drift toward the main islands, attributed to a lack of income-generating opportunities and traditional obligations that some find burdensome.
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    Asian Development Bank. 2006. Asian Development Bank and Tonga: Fact Sheet. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/5931.
    Keywords
    World Health Organization
    Urban Health Services
    Rural Health Services
    Nutrition and Health Care
    Health Aspects of Poverty
    Health and Hygiene and the Poor
    Education, Health and Social Protection
    Access to Health Care
    Social Aspects Of Poverty
    Disease Control
    Occupational Hygiene
    Medical Services
    Health Costs
    Sanitation
    Diseases
    Water Quality
    Respiratory Diseases
    Health Indicators
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Cost of medical care
    Health status indicators
    Sanitation services
    Sickness
    Illness
    Prevention of disease
    Health status indicators
    Cost and standard of living
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