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H&S challenges in Tuvalu (TUV) & Solutions

12 June 2024

MODULE 3 – Workplace H&S

11 June 2024
Participants able to: » Describe office ergonomic safety » Understand your responsibility to keep yourself and others safe at work. » Outline Roles and Responsibilities and the Internal Responsibility System » Understand the range of responsibilities from Workers, Managers and Contractors » Stop…

TUV: The Constitution of Tuvalu 1986

15 June 2023
This document contains details of The Constitution of Tuvalu 1986. Disclaimer The legal instruments provided on this website are only those used as bases for the relevant equivalence assessments and are not guaranteed to be the complete set of laws for the respective countries. While ADB, DFAT,…

AML/CFT Utilities: The Possibilities, Perils, and Pitfalls—A Pacific Perspective

10 December 2020
Money laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF) are priority issues for banks in the Pacific, which shoulder the risks and high costs associated with ML and TF. This presentation gives an overview of the banks’ process in onboarding new customers and offers a different Know Your Customer (KYC)…

International Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking and Illegal Wildlife Trade Operation Dismantled

3 September 2020
This article discussed drug trafficking and the illegal wildlife trade.

Farming Veteran Warns China's Pig Crisis Only Getting Worse

28 October 2019
African swine fever is under-reported says FCStone’s Suderman. It will spur a restructure of People's Republic of China's (PRC) entire farm industry and trigger an escalation in meat prices globally. PRC's pork deficit may eclipse U.S. production, economist says.

Tuvalu Adaptation Projects

29 August 2019
This presentation gave a geographic overview of Tuvalu and shared a number of coastal protection measures being implemented to improve the island nation's resilience.

Financing Tertiary Education

22 August 2018
Given the need to expand universities in Asia and therefore the critical role of financing, the author seeks to answer questions such as the case for university tuition charges and why student loans are necessary. He also differentiates between time-based repayment loans and income-contingent loans…

The Impact of Demographic Change on Labor Supply and Economic Growth: Can Asia Meet the Challenge Ahead?

18 May 2018
Some member-nations of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will see their working-age population grow or slightly decline by 2050; others will see them shrink. Several APEC countries rely on migration to expand their labor force and GDP. The labor force participation rates among people…

Opportunities and Challenges with Payments for Ecosystems in Brazil

8 December 2017
What can be learned from Brazil’s experiences in payments for ecosystem services? Participatory planning, empowerment, transparency, and education for sustainable development—these are some of Brazil’s strategies for success.