Technical Assistance to the Lao People's Democratic Republic for Preparing the Northern and Central Region Water Supply and Urban Development Project
Author: J. Hakim
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 20
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Mapping research and innovation in Lao People's Democratic Republic
Author: Lemarchand, Guillermo A.
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2018-05-21
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9231002716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTechnical Assistance (financed by the Japan Special Fund) to the Lao People's Democratic Republic for Preparing the Northern and Central Regions Water Supply and Sanitation Project
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoing A Dam Better
Author: Ian C. Porter
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0821369865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book succinctly describes how a large hydro dam in a poor country with weak capacity was successfully prepared by a truly global development and financial partnership, by turning the natural resource curse on its head and tapping the state of the art to mitigate environmental and social impacts.
OECD Investment Policy Reviews
Author: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Publisher: OCDE
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789264208391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Investment Policy Review examines Nigerias investment policies in light of the OECD Policy Framework for Investment (PFI), a tool to mobilize investment in support of economic growth and sustainable development. It provides an assessment and policy recommendations on different areas of the PFI: investment policy; investment promotion and facilitation; trade policy; infrastructure investment; competition; corporate governance and financial sector development. It also includes a special chapter analyzing the PFI in Lagos State. The Review follows on the request addressed by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria to the OECD Secretary-General in December 2011. It has been prepared in close co-operation with the Federal Government of Nigeria and Lagos State Government.
Water and Water Resource Management
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 352
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National Program Coordination
Author: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Office of Program Planning and Evaluation
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrinciples and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3
Author: United Nations. Statistical Office
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe publication is an international standard on the design and operation of an efficient and accurate vital statistics system at national level. It provides guidelines on collection, compiling and disseminating vital statistics. More specifically it contains (a) basic principles for a vital statistics system; (b) uses of vital statistics and civil registration records; (c) topics to be covered in a vital statistics system; (d) sources of vital statistics and how they function; (e) quality assurance in the vital statistics system and (f) strategies in improving civil registration and vital statistics systems in countries. It also informs policy makers and the general public on the importance of vital statistics and hence further improving the vital statistics system.
Global Trends 2040
Author: National Intelligence Council
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
Published: 2021-03
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781646794973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region
Author: François Molle
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1849770867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe water resources of the Mekong river catchment area, from China, through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos to Vietnam, are increasingly contested. Governments, companies and banks are driving new investment in roads, dams, diversions, irrigation schemes, navigation facilities, power plants and other emblems of conventional "development." Their plans and interventions pose multiple burdens and risks to the livelihoods of millions of people dependent on wetlands, floodplains, fisheries and aquatic resources.
