Böcker av United Nations: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Adopts a rigorous approach to measuring and quantifying progress in the level of inclusion and empowerment of marginalised groups across countries in the the Asia-Pacific region. The report focuses on three main areas of direct link to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs, namely education, employment and income.

Provides a deepening understanding of trends and developments in trade, investment and regional integration in the Asia-Pacific region. The report looks at issues in trade, investment and trade facilitation policies, and the impacts such policies have on countries' abilities to meet the challenges of achieving inclusive and sustainable development.

Argues that to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific, countries need to step up their investment in people, in particular on social protection, education and health care. This requires policymakers to identify the population groups that are disproportionally poor as well as the specific barriers that hinder their escape from poverty.

Chronicles the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific's achievements and future goals, against a backdrop of major global shifts sweeping across the economic, social and environmental landscape.

Reviews the facts and issues related to the roles of services in global value chains. This study provides the framework to understand and assess the linkages among different services as well as between services and manufacturing industries.

Reviews the state of play in implementation of trade facilitation and paperless trade in the Asia and the Pacific region. This report also provides estimates of the trade cost reduction potential of trade facilitation implementation scenarios, from basic compliance with the WTO TFA to full digital trade facilitation.

Presents official Records of the Annual Report of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 2017.

Reviews the Asia-Pacific region's inequality trends, challenges, and achievements, and identifies policy gaps across the three dimensions of inequality - inequality of outcome, inequality of opportunity and inequality of impact.

Features a diverse selection of case studies on innovative financing mechanisms that have been implemented across the Asia-Pacific region. The report calls for governments to provide incentives for the private sector to move from economic-driven investments to impact investments generating social, environmental and financial returns.

This publication informs inter-governmental and inter-agency regional decision making in support of implementing the 2030 Agenda in the region. It highlights areas where progress has been made concerning Sustainable Development Goals and areas that need collective decisions for prioritizing acceleration or changing trends.

Shows that the current strong economic performance in the Asia-Pacific region provides an opportune time for governments to initiate policies that can make economies resilient, inclusive and sustainable. The report contains analyses of such issues and explores available policy options.

Reports on trends and developments in trade, investment and regional integration in the Asia-Pacific region; emerging issues in trade, investment and trade facilitation policies, and the impacts of these policies on countries' abilities to meet the challenges of achieving inclusive and sustainable development.

One in every six persons in Asia and the Pacific has some form of disability. This amounts to 650 million men, women and children. This publication presents the first regional comprehensive progress report on participation of persons with disabilities in development opportunities.

Socially responsible business (SRB) is an approach in which for-profit businesses are proactively operating and undertaking projects that are aligned to achieving the long-term economic, social and environmental objectives of society. This book aims to increase the knowledge of policymakers and corporate leaders on SRB practices.

The Asia-Pacific region is undergoing profound and rapid population changes.

International trade has been placed prominently into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015, as an engine for economic growth and development.

Offers an evidence-based look at progress at the regional and country level, providing an overview of long-term trends since 1990, and focuses on progress achieved in the period 2012-2014. The report also examines the key drivers behind progress, and identifies challenges to achieving energy access, efficiency, and renewable energy objectives.

Provides an in-depth analysis to first determine the level of achievement ipossible under the current policy regime by developing a baseline. It then identifies the gap between the baseline and the 2030 targets to inform policymakers the additional efforts and resources that would be needed to adequately achieve SDG7 targets.

Addresses global and regional trends and opportunities on development cooperation; the ENEA experience in development cooperation; issues and challenges of development cooperation in the subregion; and enhancing development cooperation to achieve sustainable development.

Summarizes the social development gaps as countries in the region take steps to achieve the SDGs, and sketches out a broad regional agenda for a people-centred transformation, outlining some of the key priorities and resources needed. The policy simulations reported here clearly indicate that acceleration of economic growth alone would not address the remaining development gaps.

Seeks to support policymakers in promoting accessibility at a policy and practical level. It contains information on relevant global and regional mandates that support and promote disability-inclusive development and accessibility, with a view to demonstrating the multi-faceted value of focusing on disability and accessibility policies to achieve broader development goals.

Provides a historical perspective on regional energy connectivity and its implementation challenges, as well as outlining an action plan for accelerated regional energy integration to bring shared benefits to ESCAP's member States. The report concludes that energy connectivity can increase the supply and reduce the cost of energy, while lowering its social and environmental costs.

This report aims to deepen understanding of trends and developments in trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region; emerging issues in trade, investment and trade facilitation policies, and impacts of these policies on countries' abilities to meet the challenges of achieving inclusive and sustainable development.

Official records of the Annual Report of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 2016.

Asia has overtaken the EU as Latin America and the Caribbean's second largest export market. This book explores the present and future scope for the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in biregional trade and value chains and the measures that can be taken to make those chains more inclusive and sustainable.

Addresses economic diversification and its impact on structural transformation, building productive capacities, job creation and enhancing competitiveness of LLDCs in Asia. The primary objective of the report is to discuss the prospects and challenges for economic diversification in Asian LLDCs.

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report is a major annual publication of the Trade and Investment Division of United Nations ESCAP. It provides information on and independent analyses of trends and developments in intra- and inter-regional trade in goods and services; foreign direct investment; trade facilitation measures; trade policy measures; and preferential trade policies and agreements.

The UN-ESCAP (and its predecessor UN-ECAFE) has been ahead of the curve in shaping the ideas on economic and social development in the Asia-Pacific region through its annual economic and social Survey. This publication aims to provide a first-hand account of what was happening during a period of unprecedented economic and social transformation.