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People

Population	0.66 mln
Population growth	1%
Life expectancy	66 years
Net migration	34,976

Economy

GDP	$1.1 bln
- per capita	$1,668
- growth rate	19%
FDI, net inflows	$0.08 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	23%
Internet users	6%

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Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) Risk Reduction through Community-based Approaches

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One of the manifestations of the impact of climate change has emerged in the form of GLOF hazard – glacial lake outburst floods. With a view to strengthen GLOF risk mitigation efforts, the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), UNDP has been focusing on emerging hazards in the Himalayan region. The aim has been to develop activities and initiatives which can be implemented in a feasible manner and can be sustained by communities and local administrations easily to mitigate the impact more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 15, 2012

Food Security and Poverty in Asia and the Pacific

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Ensuring a secure supply of food is essential, given the world’s (and especially Asia’s) growing population, high and volatile food prices, increasingly scarce resources, and changing environment. This paper discusses the drivers behind food insecurity in Asia and points to ways to mitigate it. Policies to enhance food security that are discussed in this paper include safety net and social protection programs, and policies that promote agricultural productivity, rural development, agricultural more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 07, 2012

Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture in Asia-Pacific Region

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Climate change is a major challenge for agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods for billions of people including the poor in the Asia-Pacific region. The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyzes the connections between the nature of human action as drivers of threats as well as opportunities for more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 13, 2012

UNDP in Action 2010/2011

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This report takes stock of achievements made in 2010/2011 and provides momentum for meeting future demands. On the ground in 177 countries and territories worldwide, UNDP continues to assist governments in empowering their citizens through projects and programmes that make a difference in people's lives, allowing for informed choices, and building the groundwork towards more resilient nations. Going forward, UNDP will continue to work through its global networks to link ideas and best practice more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 25, 2012

Why Asia is Moving Toward a Green Model of Economic Growth

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The latest issue of ADB's quarterly magazine explores the concept of green growth: the embracing of environmentally sound and sustainable policies with the need to maintain high economic growth. It features an exclusive interview with leading expert Ashok Khosla, who takes a hard look at the promises and failings of green growth. In other stories, we look at pioneering efforts to deliver medicine through a soda company's distribution network.

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Sonia Hossain on February 15, 2012

Bhutan’s success in conservation: Valuing the contribution of the environment to Gross National Happiness

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This story of progress describes how a country committed to cultural and religious preservation has developed a successful approach to sustainable development and environmental conservation. Understanding how environmental progress has been made needs to take into account Bhutan’s historical context and its overarching approach to development, as captured in the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH).Unlike many developing countries in which the environment has remained a low priority for more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 23, 2012

Bhutan National Human Development Report 2011

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This report explores the linkages between climate change and human development in Bhutan. will facilitate the mainstreaming of climate change issues into development policies and programmes so that they are addressed in a more holistic manner. The Report is also intended to reaffirm Bhutan’s commitment to remain carbon neutral and to encourage private sector participation in meeting this commitment.

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Sonia Hossain on December 20, 2011

Contribution towards Developing a Roadmap for Biodiversity and Climate Change

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The report considers diversity of biological components, including wild and domesticated, social and ecological systems prevailing in the NE States of India and provides insight on hitherto underexplored biological resources with potential role in food security and the improvement of rural livelihoods towards adaptation to changing climate. The broad challenges, opportunities and possible priority areas of action have been described for the target region. Also, the major commitments of India more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 21, 2011

Driving Results at ADB

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To help realize its vision of an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) must apply its limited resources in a way that delivers the best possible development results. To better equip ADB for this task, a deliberate, structured program of managing for development results (MfDR) is pursued. This program provides the process and tools needed to deliver optimal results and ensure transparency and accountability. ADB is also supporting its developing member more...

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Sonia Hossain on November 21, 2011

Sector Assistance Program Evaluation for Bhutan Energy Sector

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Given the critical importance of the power sector to Bhutan’s overall economy and the significant role of ADB in promoting rural electrification, sector and institutional reforms through advisory technical assistance (TA) grants and policy dialogue, this sector assistance program evaluation was prepared to provide a useful input to the country assistance program evaluation for assessing Asian Development Bank (ADB) assistance to the energy sector as well as for formulating future ADB assistance more...

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licel calderon on September 28, 2010

REDD in Afghanistan: Empowering Women and Increasing Access to Energy

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Prolonged civil war has resulted in very poor governance and a battered economy and environment in Afghanistan. Firewood is the primary source of household energy in Afghanistan. But the increased demand and poor management and the collapse of traditional and formal regulatory mechanism for extracting firewood from trees has led to a situation in which barely 1.5% of land is now covered with trees down from 5%. This has resulted in a severe crisis of meeting household energy needs with women more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 31, 2011

Child Labor in Bhutan

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This dissertation attempts to contextualize the practice of child labor in Bhutan by examining various socio-economic and cultural aspects. By reviewing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, this dissertation looks into the policies, Acts and strategies adopted by the Royal Government of Bhutan in reducing child labor. It describes various characteristics of child labor in Bhutan. It also provides an analysis of domestic child labor in the country.

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Sonia Hossain on November 27, 2011

Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

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This issue of Protifolon focuses on how local communities in six countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bhutan) are managing risk. It looks at how they are coping with and preparing for possible disaster in their villages. Local communities are often the most directly affected by disasters but they also possess important local knowledge, passed down through generations, to manage risk. The poorest are the most vulnerable to risk. They will probably have no more...

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Farina Ahmed on May 30, 2011

Promoting MDGs Through The Promotion Of Sustainable And Inclusive Development In The LLDCS

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A recent review records the impressive gains made by the Asia-Pacific region in many MDG indicators, especially in reducing poverty. For several other indicators, the Asia-Pacific region as a whole has achieved the targets, e.g. reducing gender disparities in primary, secondary, and tertiary education enrollment, preventing a rise in HIV prevalence, stopping the spread of tuberculosis (TB), reducing the consumption of ozone depleting substances, and halving the proportion of people without more...

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Sonia Hossain on September 18, 2011

Organic Pineapples and Edible Insects: All Part of a Three-way South-South Initiative

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Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica have come together under a programme of South-South cooperation, sharing skills and knowledge on agriculture, environmental issues and much more, using funds from the Netherlands.From their Costa Rican counterparts, Beninese farmers have learned how to grow bigger pineapples organically and market them to European consumers; while Costa Ricans are now feeding their cattle edible insects after learning of their value from colleagues in Benin.Bhutan Market Produce“In more...

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D C on April 03, 2011

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