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Features

ADB is pushing for the amendment of the AIDS law to include HIV prevention in the workplace. This will facilitate government budget allocation for HIV prevention activities to curb an impending epidemic in Mongolia.

With rising populations, increasing food prices and environmental concerns, Asia’s agricultural sector faces a raft of challenges.

Asia has been very successful in reducing the rate of poverty yet nearly 1.8 billion people in the region still live on less than $2 a day. The effectiveness of development spending is more important than ever before.

Trade between Asia and Latin America has grown tremendously in the past decade, reaching an estimated $442 billion in 2011.

The landscape of aid has changed dramatically in the past 10 years.