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19 May 2015
One of the challenges in irrigation management is difficulty in assessing irrigation performance due to the lack of cost-effective evaluation methods. The use of satellite remote sensing, particularly evapotranspiration and crop cover maps, is seen as a potential solution.
15 May 2015
This document contains details of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
1 May 2015
The primary purpose of taxes is to raise revenue to finance government expenditure on public goods and services, including welfare, that markets would not likely deliver. If government is—on balance—a very positive force in society, then so are taxes: they are obligations we must deliver to enjoy…
1 May 2015
The Tongan Strategic Development Framework 2015-2025: A more progressive Tonga: Enhancing Our Inheritance, presents the Kingdom’s new development framework. The framework consists of the national impact we seek, 7+1 National Outcomes and twenty-nine Organisational Outcomes, which, working together…
30 April 2015
Policy Principle 1: Use a screening process for each proposed project, as early as possible, to determine the appropriate extent and type of environmental assessment so that appropriate studies are undertaken commensurate with the significance of potential impacts and risks.
30 April 2015
Myanmar has a relatively modern environmental policy but lacks a social safeguards policy to address emerging social issues associated with development agenda that the country has set for future. As one of the initiatives to build capacity within the country, the ADB in July 2012 approved the TA…
21 April 2015
Improve the social and economic status of project-affected families by providing fair and adequate compensation, appropriate resettlement, and rehabilitation assistance/allowances while acquiring land for infrastructure development projects and projects of public interest.
16 April 2015
ADB is a solid and well-functioning organization that does good. ADB, however, must shift its course by taking a step further to bring greater impact in the Asian region, which although is at the forefront of several important developments also faces the biggest challenges in the world.
8 April 2015
This material provides an overview of the Global Alliance For Clean Cookstoves' specific gender strategy for increasing the role of women in the clean cookstoves and fuels sector and for addressing gender issues to scale adoption.
1 April 2015
Efficient and effective land administration underpins the very functioning of states and societies. Imagine a country where, for example, tenure to land cannot be secured or mortgages cannot be established in aid of property development. Across the world, key questions about land are surfacing, and…