Monthly Archives: October 2013

Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific: Driving Private Sector Participation in Global Value Chains

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There are five main findings of the Regional Technical Group report:
1. Aid for Trade has played an important role in helping Asian economies build the productive capacity to integrate further into the global economy.
2. Domestic development strategies in Asia and the Pacific are increasingly incorporating measures that target improvements in the investment climate.
3. Effective public–private dialogues are an essential feature of modern development strategies in Asia and the Pacific.
4. Aid for Trade can promote and work together with other financial flows, which together can enhance Aid for Trade’s positive impacts on trade capacity.
5. Despite important successes, Asia’s challenged states must more actively diversify Aid for Trade resources beyond their existing focus on physical infrastructure.

You can download the report “Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific: Driving Private Sector Participation in Global Value Chains” here

Global Environment Facility

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Global Environment Facility

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) unites 182 countries in partnership with international institutions, civil society organizations (CSOs), and the private sector to address global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives. The program focuses on the following main areas: biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, sustainable forest management, chemicals and ozone layer depletion.

Important Message to our Subscribers (International Herald Tribune, Oct 14 2013, Page22)

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Important Message to our Subscribers

International Herald Tribune
Oct 14 2013

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The End Of The Library?

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The End Of The Library

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Imagine walking into a library or bookstore and needing three or four pairs of different glasses to read different books manufactured to specific viewing equipment. That’s just nuts. But it’s the current situation we’re in with ebooks.

It’s almost like some people want to interpret anyone talking about the end of libraries as talking about the end of learning — and, by extension, the end of civilization. The reality is that learning has evolved. This is a good thing.

I’m sorry I have to be the one to write this. I have nothing but fond memories of libraries from my youth. Of course, I also have fond memories of bookstores. And we all know how that has turned out…

Journalism in the age of the open web

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The rise of the reader: journalism in the age of the open web

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Digital is not about putting up your story on the web. It’s about a fundamental redrawing of journalists’ relationship with our audience, how we think about our readers, our perception of our role in society, our status.

The People Formerly Known as the Audience don’t just sit there, and if you don’t listen to them, work with them, work for them, give them what they want and need, they have plenty of other places to go.

The open web makes it possible to interact with this audience like never before, and collaborate with them to discover, distribute and discuss stories in an array of new ways.

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The Abomination of Ebooks

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“The real problem with ebooks is that they’re more “e” than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone — from an individual to a library — can and can’t do with them compared to physical books, especially when it comes to pricing.”

“Ebook consumers should be able to lend and resell ebooks the same way we do with physical books — only then can an ebook truly be a book, with all the world-opening possibilities it offers.”

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