News: ITU, ADB and the World Bank
Responding to climate change is more difficult for small islands due to their geographical isolation, socio-economic characteristics, and lack of technical capacity and knowledge.
While electricity may ease the burden of housework, it does not decrease the overall workload of women.
Women are disproportionately affected by water and sanitation issues, including inadequate water supply, lack of sanitation and poor hygiene practices.
ADB is expecting growth to moderate across ADB's Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) this year (including Timor-Leste), mostly as a result of solid but slower growth in a few of the region’s larger, natural resource–extracting economies. The region's growth has fallen from the post-global economic and financial crisis high of 8.3%, to 7.2% in 2012, and growth is projected at 5.2% in 2013.
The government budgetary process can have a powerful impact on societal gains.
A new institution, offering greater development assistance, is badly needed.
Gender, diversity and inclusion is not a woman thing. It is a human thing. We can all afford to be bolder and more involved, to make things a lot better.
Women’s involvement in water utilities is about creating more employment, equalizing opportunities for men and women, and hiring the best person for the job regardless of gender.
What will the future for Asia and the Pacific look like - the region with the fastest economic growth and, at the same time, with the poorest people and the largest inequalities in the world – after 2015 and the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals?
- How Private Companies are Helping Papua New Guinea Improve Rural Health Services -- by Sakiko Tanaka
Using public-private partnerships, Papua New Guineau is taking innovative approaches to bringing health care to some of its most remote areas.