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Asia-Pacific countries must deal with the overlapping effects of a pandemic and natural hazards. This new riskscape has generated a…

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound effect on the economy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC),*…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Fan, Shenggen|Zhang, Yumei

Building resilience to disasters continues to pose challenges for developing countries. Historically, small island developing states (…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Dunz, Nepomuk|Tanaka, Hajime|Shiiba, Nagisa|Mochizuki, Junko|Naqvi, Asjad

This publication identifies investment approaches, opportunities, and finance mechanisms in Southeast Asia that can promote and catalyze…

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10 Dec 2021

Efforts to restore disaster-affected infrastructure and livelihoods as swiftly as possible may compete with other development objectives…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Dunz, Nepomuk|Tanaka, Hajime|Shiiba, Nagisa|Mochizuki, Junko|Naqvi, Asjad

Fiji

08 Dec 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year, Sri Lanka’s agriculture system and natural environment are experiencing upheavals…

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Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka

Lanka, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri

This interim guidance explains how to account for projected changes to extreme daily rainfall intensity in Pacific island countries in…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Kiem, Anthony|Magee, Andrew

Samoa

01 Dec 2021

In this paper, we examine whether and how green bond issuance affects local air quality and mortality rates in the People's…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Luo, Yan|Tian, Shu|Yang, Hao

Balancing economic growth and sustainable development in the Yellow River basin is a challenging task. This is underscored by the July…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Cardascia, Silvia|Robertson, Suzanne