The Great Upheaval
The Great Upheaval
Kanni Wignaraja, UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, New York
$133.00
USDAt 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.
- Covers diverse topics from inequality and climate finance to global value chains and public goods
- Data and evidence-driven
- Discusses policy implications for developing countries and international organizations
Product details
July 2022Hardback
9781009224321
426 pages
235 × 155 × 31 mm
0.67kg
Available
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Appendices
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword Achim Steiner
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Swarnim Waglé 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? José 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.
