Browsing 1.03 Southeast Asia & China Context by Resource Type "book"
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An Evolving ASEAN: Vision and Reality
(Asian Development Bank, 2019)
The formation of ASEAN in 1967 was originally driven by political and security concerns. In the decades that followed, ASEAN’s scope evolved to include an ambitious and progressive economic agenda. In December 2015, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was formally launched. Although AEC has enjoyed some notable successes, its vision of economic integration has yet to be fully realized. The publication reviews the evolution of ASEAN economic integration and assesses the major achievements. It also examines the challenges that have emerged during ... -
ASEAN @50Volume 4: Building ASEAN Community: Political-Security and Socio-cultural Reflections
(ERIA, 2017)
ASEAN has gradually built, on the basis of both shared interests and common principles and norms, various practices and mechanisms that helped prevent conflict among its members and allowed it to play an autonomous role in shaping the regional security architecture. Overcoming the member states' preoccupation with their own national concerns to give way to advocacy of collective interests has remained difficult, but progress is being made. Part A of this volume looks at the processes and dynamics, challenges, and opportunities of ASEAN ... -
ASEAN Community Progress Monitoring System 2017
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ASEAN Key Figures 2019
(The ASEAN Secretariat, 2019) -
ASEAN Social Progress 1967-2017(Leaflet)
(The ASEAN Secretariat, 2017) -
ASEAN statistical report on millennium development goals 2017.
(The ASEAN Secretariat, 2017) -
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Celebrating ASEAN: 50 years of evolution and progress
(The ASEAN Secretariat, 2017)
A statistical publication released on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration establishing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Since its foundation in 1967, ASEAN has made extraordinary progress in preserving peace and security, promoting economic co-operation and integration as well as social development. This publication presents a collection of statistical indicators from ASEANstats’ databases, and highlights the main findings observed to showcase the evolution and progress of ASEAN over the past decades -
Demystifying rising inequality in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019)
Income inequality is one of the most profound social, economic, and political challenges of our time. The gap between the rich and the poor has been regarded as a major concern for policy makers. This gap is at its highest level in decades for developed economies, while the inequality trend has been rising in many developing countries. In Asia, despite recent economic growth, income distribution has been worsening as well. This book contributes to the existing literature on inequality in Asia by overviewing the new trend of inequality in Asia and ... -
Demystifying rising inequality in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019)
Income inequality is one of the most profound social, economic, and political challenges of our time. The gap between the rich and the poor has been regarded as a major concern for policy makers. This gap is at its highest level in decades for developed economies, while the inequality trend has been rising in many developing countries. In Asia, despite recent economic growth, income distribution has been worsening as well. This book contributes to the existing literature on inequality in Asia by overviewing the new trend of inequality in Asia and ... -
Inequality in Asia and the Pacific in the era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(United Nations, 2018)
This publication reviews the 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. It also discusses the potential impact of rapid and disruptive technological advances, such as machine learning, and puts forward a broad set of policy recommendations for reducing all forms of inequality for the effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its core tenant of "leaving no ... -
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Why traditional Chinese philosophy still matters: the relevance of ancient wisdom for the global age
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World health statistics 2021: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals
(World Health Organization, 2021)
WHO’s World health statistics report 2021 presents the latest data for more than 50 health-related indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s “Triple Billion” targets. It finds an overall increase in global life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth as a result of improvements in several communicable diseases, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions, noncommunicable diseases, injuries and their underlying determinants. Persisting inequalities also continue to impact population health in most, if not all, aspects. ...