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Notes from the Field
Korea Leads Way for Asia's Green Growth
April 24, 2013
The conference in the Asian Approaches to Development Cooperation dialogue series convened in Seoul, South Korea, this month, and brought together development experts and senior government officials to discuss climate change mitigation, green growth, and adapting to and building resilience to natural disasters. This dialogue series, co-organized by The Asia Foundation and the Korea Development Institute (KDI), brings together both "emerging" and "traditional" development actors to discuss international development challenges. This year's focus on effective cooperation for deterring the impacts of climate change was launched in Seoul, fittingly, as South Korea is playing a leading role in low-carbon development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Notes from the Field
Climate Change Games Crystalize Complexities
April 24, 2013
People were standing up and sitting down, intense negotiations were underway, funding decisions were being made, and a lot of commotion was coming from a crowd of over 300 policymakers, scientists, and practitioners from over 40 countries. We are gathered in Dhaka, Bangladesh...
Notes from the Field
A Platform for Asian Emerging Donors
April 24, 2013
As discussions on the federal budget and sequestration continue here in Washington, D.C., The Asia Foundation's Washington office sponsored an event to discuss how various Asian nations are approaching and, in some cases, expanding their development assistance programs.
Notes from the Field
Mongolia to Host 7th Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies
April 24, 2013
As Mongolia makes final preparations to host the 7th Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies from April 27-29, 2013, an air of excitement and buzz is palpable here in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Among the hundreds of high-level delegates from the government...
In The News
Dignity in International Relations
April 24, 2013
Recent vituperative comments by the North Korean regime can normally be dismissed as the ravings of a state that either misinterprets their negative external impact, or as rhetoric that is intended for consumption by a remarkably unsophisticated internal audience.