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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List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; List of Appendices; List of Abbreviations; Foreword Achim Steiner; Acknowledgements; Introduction Swarnim Wagle and Kanni Wignaraja; 1. Aligning Sovereign Debt Financing with Climate Action in the Asia-Pacific Region Manuel F. Montes; 2. Melting Glaciers, Threatened Livelihoods: Confronting Climate Change to Save the Third Pole Arnico K. Panday; 3. Accelerating Universal Digital Connectivity Paul Garnett; 4. The Post-COVID-19 Future for Global Value Chains Ben Shepherd; 5. Is Southeast Asia Falling into a Latin American-Style Middle-Income Trap? Jose Gabriel Palma and Jonathan Pincus; 6. Equality of Opportunity as a Measure of Development Avidit Acharya and John Roemer; 7. Insights for Policymaking from the Multidimensional Poverty Index Sabina Alkire and Alexandra Fortacz; 8. COVID-19 and Human Insecurity A. K. Shiva Kumar; 9. Making COVID-19 Vaccine Universally Accessible Partha Mukhopadhyay; 10. Enhancing the Provision of Global Public Goods: Ready for More Realism? Inge Kaul; 11. Asian-Pacific Regional Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era Khalil Hamdani; 12. Pandemic Governance and Human Development: Early Lessons from Asia Sakiko Fukuda-Parr; 13. Seven Lessons for Development Policy from the COVID-19 Pandemic Sanjay Reddy; About the Contributors; Index.
