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The impact of ageing on accessibility, affordability and availability of healthcare services in Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations, 2022-06)
<p>The Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development (United Nations, 2015) is a call for “[a] world with equitable and universal access to… health care and social protection, where physical, mental and social ...
Active labour market policies in Asia and the Pacific : a review of the literature
(United Nations, 2022-06)
<p>This paper reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of active labour market programmes in low- and middle-income countries with high informality, highlighting examples of interventions that have been implemented in ...
Managing in-land water disasters in the Aral Sea : sub-regional pathways for adaptation and resilience
(United Nations, 2022-04)
ESCAP’s analytical work on managing in-land water disasters in the Aral Sea is organized in two parts. While Part I titled ‘<a href="https://repository.unescap.org/handle/20.500.12870/4394">Aral Sea, Central Asian Countries ...
Contextualizing transformation of healthcare sector in Asia-Pacific in the post-COVID-19 era
(United Nations, 2022)
The paper lays out a broad framework to reimagine healthcare systems using the digital technologies as one of the core pillars in the Asia-pacific countries. It argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed serious flaws ...
Efforts towards measuring the gender-environment nexus in Asia and the Pacific
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-13)
<p>This paper builds on previous work to advance the measurement of the gender-environment nexus in the Asia-Pacific region, undertaken by UN Women and ESCAP. It examines methodological advances that have taken place since ...
Social protection and the informal economy : what do we know?
(United Nations, 2022)
<p>This paper takes stock of the literature that examines how the recent expansion of contributory and non-contributory social protection programmes in low- and middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America ...
Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector in South and Southeast Asia
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-02)
<p>This Research Paper examines why agricultural biomass burning is a crucial issue for South and Southeast Asia, and how the emissions from such burning impact climate change, health, environment, and economies, particularly ...
Trade, investment and cooperation in health product and services in the Asia-Pacific Region
(UN.ESCAP, 2022)
<p>In Asia-Pacific, over the last few decades, countries have focussed on improving their healthcare sector and have been trying to achieve the targets set by SDG 3 – Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Wellbeing for ...
Review of alignment between roadmap for accelerated implementation of VPoA and national development strategies of five LLDCs in Asia (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Lao PDR, Mongolia and Nepal)
(UN.ESCAP, 2022)
<p>The Vienna Program of Action was adopted at the Second UN Conference on LLDCs in Vienna in November 2014. The program was developed for the period 2014-2024 to address some of the unique challenges faced by landlocked ...
Regional integration in Bay of Bengal region in post-COVID-19 period
(United Nations, 2021)
Bay of Bengal countries have been affected heavily by the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. This article argues that the regional cooperation could help in reducing the costs of pandemic-driven barriers. The responses to the ...