Browsing 1.03.02 Economic, Social & Political Context by Issue Date
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The contribution of poor and rural populations to national trends in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health coverage: analyses of cross-sectional surveys from 64 countries
(The Lancet Global Health, 2017)
Background Coverage levels for essential interventions aimed at reducing deaths of mothers and children are increasing steadily in most low-income and middle-income countries. We assessed how much poor and rural populations in these countries are benefiting from national-level progress. -
Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity in a Changing Asia-Pacific
(United Nations, 2017-03-01)
This report is produced under a renewed partnership between United Nations (ESCAP), ADB, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to support national and regional efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It explores five megatrends that will determine whether everyone will be able to thrive and fulfill their expectations for a better life in the future: regional economic cooperation and integration; rural–urban transitions; demographic changes; ICT access and connectivity; and demand for natural resources. It ... -
Commentary: Inequality looms beneath the shiny facade of Southeast Asia's growth
(CNA, 2017-04-23) -
Malaysia PM warns inequality fuelling extremism; ASEAN urges calm over North Korea
(Reuter, 2017-04-28) -
Education, Globalization, and Income Inequality in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-05)
This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The evidence supports the validity of Kuznets’ inverted-U hypothesis for the connection between income level and income inequality. However, when more variables are integrated into the model, the consistency of the inverse U-shaped curve becomes weaker. The empirical results suggest that educational variables are highly influential in affecting income distribution. Our analysis indicates that a higher level of education achieved by ... -
What is the Future of Integration and Inequality in ASEAN?
(the Diplomat, 2017-09-15) -
Leni to ASEAN: Address gender inequality
(Manila Bulletin News, 2017-11-07) -
World Bank: Wealth inequality a threat to East Asia, Pacific
(the Star Online, 2017-12-04) -
Capacity building for health inequality monitoring in Indonesia: enhancing the equity orientation of country health information systems
(2018)
Background: Inequalities in health represent a major problem in many countries, including Indonesia. Addressing health inequality is a central component of the Sustainable Development Goals and a priority of the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO provides technical support for health inequality monitoring among its member states. Following a capacity-building workshop in the WHO South-East Asia Region in 2014, Indonesia expressed interest in incorporating healthinequality monitoring into its national health information system. Objectives: This ... -
Singapore's migrant workers struggle to get paid
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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 ... -
Building capacity for health equity analysis in the WHO South-East Asia Region
(2019)
Leaving no one behind” is at the heart of the agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals, requiring that health systems be vigilant to how interventions can be accessed equitably by all, including population subgroups that face exclusion. In the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region, inequalities can be found across and within countries but there has been a growing commitment to examining and starting to tackle them. Over the past decade in particular, WHO has been developing an armamentarium of tools to enable analysis of health ... -
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 ... -
How Countries in Southeast Asia are Working Together to Accelerate Human Capital Development
(THE WORLD BANK, 2019) -
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 ... -
Thailand’s wealth inequality is the highest in the world: What will this mean for the upcoming elections?
(United Nation ESCAP, 2019-01-16) -
Realigning the incentive system for China’s primary healthcare providers
(BMJ, 2019-06-21) -
An evolving Asean: vision and reality
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-09)
This volume is a compilation of the papers presented at the High-Level Workshop on the Evolving Nature of ASEAN’s Economic Cooperation: Original Vision and Current Practice, containing the authors’ personal reflections on ASEAN’s journey toward economic integration. The papers review the historical evolution of ASEAN’s economic agenda, capture its achievements, examine the challenges that have surfaced in the last decade, and recommend a way forward. The papers in this volume emphasize that, while there have been notable successes, the remaining ...