| Afghanistan Afghanistan
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| Asian Development Bank The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established in 1966 to promote economic and social development in Asian and Pacific countries through loans and technical assistance. It is a multilateral development financial institution owned by 67 members (as of 2 February 2007), 48 from the region and 19 from other parts of the globe. Asian_Development_Bank
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| Economy of the Philippines Economy_of_the_Philippines
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| Non-governmental organization Non-governmental organization (NGO) is a term that has become widely accepted for referring to a legally constituted, non-governmental organization created by natural or legal persons with no participation or representation of any government. In the cases in which NGOs are funded totally or partially by governments, the NGO maintains its non-governmental status therefore it excludes government representatives from membership in the organization. Non-governmental_organization
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| Famine A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.Presently many famines are caused simply by imbalance of food production compared to the large populations of countries whose population exceeds the regional carrying capacity. Famine
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| Poverty Poverty is the shortage of common things such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, all of which determine the quality of life. It may also include the lack of access to opportunities such as education and employment which aid the escape from poverty and/or allow one to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens. According to Mollie Orshansky who developed the poverty measurements used by the U.S. government, "to be poor is to be deprived of those goods and Poverty
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| Great Leap Forward The Great Leap Forward () of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization and industrialization. Mao Zedong based this program on the Theory of Productive Forces. It ended in catastrophe as it triggered a widespread famine that resulted in millions of deaths. Great_Leap_Forward
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| Great Leap Forward Talk:Great_Leap_Forward
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| Savad Rahman P.K. Savad Rahman is the winner of Development Journalist of Asia Award from Asian Development Bank Institute. Mr. Savad was born in 1979 in Kerala, India. His focus is on human rights and environmental issues. Savad Rahman is working as a subeditor of Madhyamam the Malayalam daily newspaper.Savad also won the international Journalism Prize for Social and Environmental Responsibility awarded by the “Social and Environmental Responsibility World Forum” in partnership with the “World Editors Forum” Savad_Rahman
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| Alexander Flor Alexander G. Flor is a Filipino academic best known as a pioneer of the Los Baños school of development communication, contributing to the field's understanding and application of ethnovideography, distance learning, strategic communication, environmental communication, the collective mind, knowledge management and information and communication technologies for development. Flor is currently the Dean of the UP Open University's Faculty of Information & Communication Studies. Alexander_Flor
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| Social business enterprise Social business enterprise is an economic concept innovated by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus whose business is designed to meet a social goal. Yunus termed Social Business Enterprise (SBE) as 'social benefit maximizing kind businesses that are created to do good to people, not paying any attention to making personal gain'. Social_business_enterprise
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| Sisira Jayasuriya Sisira Jayasuriya, is professor of Economics at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has extensive experience with research and policy advisory activities on agricultural and trade He is an ethnic Sinhalese from Sri Lanka. In January 2009 he was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War. This intervi Sisira_Jayasuriya
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| Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation , a National Organisation set up in the year 1998 with the objective to promote Socio- Economic and Cultural aspects of Tribals residing in India. Research and Cultural Organization TRCF is a specialized agency of the Tribal Studies established at Poonch. Tribal_Research_and_Cultural_Foundation
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