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Philippines: Accelerating Growth That Leaves No One Behind

The Asian Development Bank has launched a new country partnership strategy (CPS) to support the Philippines’ transformation in the next 6 years. It is designed to ensure sustainable, inclusive and resilient growth in the face of climate challenges.




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Empowering Women in Uzbekistan through Home Ownership

The Mortgage Market Sector Development Program aims to transform the government’s housing financing approach to a market-based mortgage system that can provide long-term and affordable housing loans to low- and middle-income households, with specific consideration to home ownership by women.




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Principal Integrity Specialist

ADB has a vacancy for the position of Principal Integrity Specialist in the Office of Anticorruption and Integrity. The deadline for submitting applications is on 19-NOV-2024.




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Senior/Principal Planning and Policy Specialist

ADB has a vacancy for the position of Senior/Principal Planning and Policy Specialist in the Strategy, Policy and Partnerships Department. The deadline for submitting applications is on 22-NOV-2024.




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Development Asia: Designing a Comprehensive Public Financial Management Reform Plan for the Philippines




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Integrated Financial Supervision: An Institutional Perspective for the Philippines

Philippine institutions and governance structures must be strengthened as part of any effort to reform the country's financial supervisory structure.



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Number of Children and Their Education in Philippine Households

This paper examines the impact of family size on children's education in the Philippines.



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Dollarization and the Multiple Currency Phenomenon in Lao PDR: Costs, Benefits and Policy Options

This paper examines the costs and benefits of the multiple currency phenomenon in Lao PDR and considers options in terms of policy response.



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Infrastructure Challenges in South Asia: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships

South Asian private sector participation in infrastructure development is examined, and recommendations are made for future development.



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Finance and Development: Financing Township and Village Enterprises in the People's Republic of China

This paper examines the role of finance in development in the light of the experience of Township and Village Enterprises in the People's Republic of China.



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to write an autobiographical essay for a scholarship




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to wire a 4 way light switch with multiple lights




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to write scripts in unix pdf




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to draw hip hop




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to wire a three way switch with multiple lights

to wire a three way switch with multiple lights




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to wire multiple horsepower motor




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to write a recipe kids

to write a recipe kids




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to change minds the art of influence without manipulation




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to write a high school scholarship application letter

to write a high school scholarship application letter




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The Kyrgyz Republic and ADB: 30 Years of Partnership (1994–2024)

This brochure explores the 30-year partnership between the Asian Development Bank and the Kyrgyz Republic, sharing highlights from key sectors.




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Loan No. 2542-BAN (SF): Participatory Small Scale Water Resources Sector Project [LGED/PSSW/PD/Ukhia/Cox/R-4/2013]




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2963-MON: Fifth Health Sector Development Project[# BBE-02/15 Supply of Blood Bank equipment for National Tranfusiology Center in Mongolia]




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Loan No. 42486-IND: Madhya Pradesh Urban Services Improvement Program [MPUSIP 6D REBIDDING]




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Loan No. 2462-BAN: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project [UGIIP-II /LGED/ICB/ G-53]




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Operationalizing the Bangladesh Climate Development Partnership

The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) has recently launched the Bangladesh Climate and Development Partnership to drive climate actions at scale and with urgency. The BCDP is an example of country-led climate platform established to scale up implementation of climate actions and is being recognized as an important modality by the global community to deliver climate actions at scale.




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The science is clear: repeatedly whipping a horse won't help it learn

After the release of a shocking video showing Olympic rider Charlotte Dujardin whipping a horse, it is time for equestrians to educate themselves on the science of horse training, says Christa Lesté-Lasserre




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Backflipping springtails are the fastest spinners known in nature

High-speed camera recordings show that springtails spin at up to 368 rotations per second when they jump away from danger




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Even simple bacteria can anticipate the changing seasons

Cyanobacteria exposed to shorter days are better at surviving cold conditions, showing that even simple organisms can prepare for the arrival or summer and winter




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If your gym instructor is an iPad, what is lost – and gained?

When your gym class is online at home, you don't necessarily need to miss out on the benefits that come from exercising in-person with others




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Why frenemies, or love-hate relationships, are so bad for your health

Friends who blow hot and cold put more strain on your physical and mental health than enemies. Here's how to spot them and handle them




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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

What life is and how the mind works fall within the compass of one bold concept. But critics say that by attempting to explain everything, it may end up explaining nothing




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Time travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment

An ordinary-looking valley has a secret – each of its neighbours is 20 years removed in time. Scott Alexander Howard's debut is heartfelt and deeply enjoyable, says Emily H. Wilson




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Chris Packham: We're precipitating a mass extermination event

Chris Packham's new BBC series, Earth, looks at significant moments in Earth's history, including anthropogenic climate change and biodiversity loss, "It's not a sixth mass extinction event that we're precipitating," he says, "it's a mass extermination event"




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Watch Philippines typhoon disaster film winner of Earth Photo 24 award

A documentary film about three young survivors of super-typhoon Odette, a tropical cyclone that hit the Philippines in 2021, wins the New Scientist Editors Award at Earth Photo 2024




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Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship

Endurance sank beneath the ice during Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition. More than a hundred years later, researchers document their own saga of how they found the vessel




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The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point

In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, and further degradation could make it a permanent shift




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Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship

Endurance sank beneath the ice during Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition. More than a hundred years later, researchers document their own saga of how they found the vessel




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One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI

Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT's release seem to include AI-written content




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Natural fibres in wet wipes may actually be worse for soil and animals

Fibres in wet wipes and clothes often make their way into soil - and natural versions could be more damaging than synthetic ones




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In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

A stellar cast play leaders of G7 countries facing an existential crisis in Rumours, a smart film about communication, diplomatic nonsense and not coping, says Simon Ings




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SpaceX targets Starship flight next week – just a month after last one

SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. Next week's launch – if successful – will be the fastest turnaround yet




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How ancient Herculaneum papyrus scrolls were deciphered

3D mapping and artificial intelligence has helped decipher an ancient Herculaneum papyrus scroll which had been digitally scanned




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The plague may have wiped out most northern Europeans 5000 years ago

DNA evidence from tombs in Sweden and Denmark suggests major plague outbreaks were responsible for the Neolithic decline in northern Europe




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A gripping account of morality shows how we work out right from wrong

Where do morals come from? In Animals, Robots, Gods, anthropologist Webb Keane argues imagination and differing senses of the world are key to discerning right from wrong




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Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips to South America

DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was no population crash before the arrival of Europeans




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How to Use Ketone Strips to Measure Ketosis

Title: How to Use Ketone Strips to Measure Ketosis
Category: Health and Living
Created: 8/24/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/24/2022 12:00:00 AM




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Health Tip: Soothing a Sore Throat

Title: Health Tip: Soothing a Sore Throat
Category: Health News
Created: 8/28/2007 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/28/2007 12:00:00 AM




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Health Tip: Excessive Sweating

Title: Health Tip: Excessive Sweating
Category: Health News
Created: 8/28/2007 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/28/2007 12:00:00 AM




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Whiplash May Result in Delayed Jaw Pain

Title: Whiplash May Result in Delayed Jaw Pain
Category: Health News
Created: 8/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/31/2007 12:00:00 AM




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Health Tip: Exercise Your Brain

Title: Health Tip: Exercise Your Brain
Category: Health News
Created: 8/27/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM