The Great Upheaval
Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific'
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The Great Upheaval
Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific'
About this book
At the turn of the 21st Century, Asia pulled one billion people out of poverty in one generation, a meteoric rise suddenly stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume examines the strengths of the Asian-Pacific response to the pandemic and weaknesses that the region must re-engineer to rebound. It reimagines social and economic pathways to revamp production modes and networks to rekindle sustainable growth. Home to two-thirds of the world's population, the Asia-Pacific Region already accounts for close to half of all global output. By 2050 – after a detour of two centuries and a few pandemics – Asia-Pacific can again become a centrifugal economic and social force. This volume sets out options for policymakers to consider as we head into a new Asia-Pacific Century, one where economic strength will be necessary but insufficient by itself, as inclusion, resilience and sustainability – once seen as moral choices – become imperatives for the planet's future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Great Upheaval
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Appendices
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Aligning Sovereign Debt Financing with Climate Action in the Asia-Pacific Region
- 2 Melting Glaciers, Threatened Livelihoods
- 3 Accelerating Universal Digital Connectivity
- 4 The Post-COVID-19 Future for Global Value Chains
- 5 Is Southeast Asia Falling into a Latin American–Style Middle-Income Trap?
- 6 Equality of Opportunity as a Measure of Development
- 7 Insights for Policymaking from the Multidimensional Poverty Index
- 8 COVID-19 and Human Security
- 9 Making COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Accessible
- 10 Enhancing the Provision of Global Public Goods: Ready for More Realism?
- 11 Asian-Pacific Regional Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era
- 12 Pandemic Governance and Human Development: Early Lessons from Asia
- 13 Seven Lessons for Development Policy from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- About the Contributors
- Index