Useful Background Reading
Central Asia: Mapping Future Prospects to 2015
Asian Development Bank / ERD Working Paper that considers the region's economic prospects to 2015 (pdf format).
Connecting East Asia: A New Framework for Infrastructure
Joint study of infrastructure in East Asia by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (pdf format).
Export or domestic demand-led growth in developing Asia?
Part I of Asian Development Outlook 2005 “Promoting competition for long-term development' published by Asian Development Bank (pdf format).
Growth and Trade Horizons for Asia: Long-term Forecasts for Regional Integration
Paper by David Roland-Holst, Jean-Pierre Verbiest, and Fan Zhai (pdf format).
Labor Markets in Asia: Promoting Full, Productive, and Decent Employment
Paper by the Asian Development Bank reproducing a special chapter of Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries 2005 (pdf format).
View the Powerpoint presentation relating to this paper (pdf format).
Poverty in Asia - Estimates and Projections
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Key Indicators 2005 (pdf format).
Regional Cooperation and Integration in Asia
Paper prepared by the Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development Bank (pdf format).
Asia 2015 - Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty: UK NGO and Civil Society Perspectives and Recommendations
Submissions and papers from British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND).
The European Union’s Strategic Interests in East
Asia, Volume 1
Study by the Consortium of European Institute for Asian Studies and Nomisma on the economics and politics of East Asian Cooperation
and in particular China's role in this process: Challenges and
Opportunities for EU policy (pdf format)
The European Union's Strategic Interests in East
Asia, Volume 2
Study by the Consortium of European Institute for Asian Studies and Nomisma on the economics and politics of East Asian Cooperation and in particular China's role in this process: Challenges and Opportunities for EU policy (pdf format)
Partnership Strategies to Develop
Infrastructure, Increase Economic
Growth, and Reduce Poverty in Asia
and the Pacific
Paper outlining the key
issues, challenges, and opportunities in infrastructure development. Comissioned by the Asian Development Bank (pdf format).
Defending Labour Rights in Asia
Some Reflections on Trade Union Rights in the Continent from Brendan Barber, General Secretary, Trades Union Congress, London.
The TUC website contains a range of material relating to labour issues in Asia.
Asia 2015 Conference: Bangladesh Perspective
Reflections from Barrister Mainul Hosein, Chairman of the Editorial Board, The Daily Ittefaq and The New Nation.
What is the Economics of Climate Change
Discussion Paper produced by the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (pdf format).
Download annexes to Discussion Paper
East Asian Growth and Japanese Aid Strategy
Collected Essays by
Kenichi Ohno on economic development (pdf format).
True Ownership and Policy Autonomy: Managing Donors and Owning Policies
Analysis of the experiences of Thailand, Vietnam,
and Cambodia in managing aid relationships and development
processes. Edited by Izumi Ohno (pdf format).
Science, Agriculture and the Politics of Policy
A new book by Ian Scoones (Institute of Development Studies) which examines the intersections of globalisation, technology and politics, through a detailed examination of agricultural biotechnology in India.
Achieving the MDGs in Asia: A Case for More Aid?
Report prepared by the UNESCAP secretariat as background for the Commission at
its sixty-second Commission session in Jakarta from 6 to 12 April 2006, with funding
support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) (pdf format)
A Future Within Reach: Reshaping Institutions in a Region of Disparities
to Meet the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
The second in a series of regional reports on the MDGs in the region commissioned by UNESCAP, UNDP and the ADB.
Vietnam Development Report 2006, 'Business',
Joint Donor Report to the Vietnam Consultative Group Meeting,
Hanoi, December 6-7, 2005.
Indonesia - Averting an Infrastructure Crisis:
A Framework for Policy and Action
Recent economic developments in infrastructure.
Bank Dunia, World Bank.
East Asia Decentralizes: Making Local Governments Work
Study by the World Bank.
UK Government White Paper Speeches
Growth and Poverty Reduction? Creating More and Better Jobs in Poor Countries
Thursday 19 January
nef (new economics foundation)
Governance and Development
Thursday 2 February
Royal African Society and the Centre for African Policy & Peace Strategy (CAPPS)
Public Services (education, health, user fees, social protection)
Thursday 16 February
UNISON - The public service union
Development Beyond Aid (climate change, global governance)
Thursday 23 February
Chatham House and British Overseas NGO's for Development (BOND)
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