CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES IN SOUTH ASIA AN INTRODUCTION

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Key Messages
• For South Asia to expand apparel exports and jobs, it needs to adopt policies
to increase market access, ease import barriers (notably for manmade fibers),
improve export logistics, and facilitate foreign investment.
• If it fails to do so—and fails to do so quickly—it risks losing[r]

INTRODUCTION
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and places.A/ Famous places in Asia. ( A2+ A3 )I/ Objectives.By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to talk about the names ofcountries in South East Asia and the capital of these countries.II/ Language contents.1, Vocabulary: The countie[r]

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