Developing Cities: Hans-On

Developing Cities: Hans-On

Jill Gale de Villa The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in its State of the World Population 1996, noted that Asia then had about 1.2 billion urban residents, and that this number was expected to balloon to 2.7 billion by 2025. And in 2011, energybulletin.net...
Letter from the Roof of the World

Letter from the Roof of the World

Shahida Jaffrey Up to the Roof. 21 years ago, on 8 December 1989, I was on the Aga Khan Foundation Helicopter accompanying Shoaib Sultan Khan, General Manager of an innovative rural development program up in high mountains— the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme...
The Eyes and the Aetas

The Eyes and the Aetas

Raquel Cabiles (ADB 1971–1997) All Eyes on Antipolo. On Monday, 23 April 2012, six AFE–ADB volunteers—Ben Hombre, Midi Diel Kawashima, Aida Lizarondo, Oskee Nunez, Nini Tibay, and I—plus one ADB staff member, Vagie Collanto-Leon, trooped to the Soriano-Leyble Medical...