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Advancing pacific priorities 2023
(UN. ESCAP, 2023-12-29)Advancing Pacific Priorities 2023 communicates efforts by the ESCAP Subregional Office for the in supporting Pacific SIDS in their implementation of the SDGs, the SAMOA Pathway, and effectively their own national ...
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Taking stock of the digital trade and investment policies in the Asia-Pacific Region with ESCAP's Regional Digital Trade Integration Index
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-27)The trade and investment flows of Asia-Pacific economies have recovered in the past two years, a time when the region also experienced a wave of digital transformation. This report starts from the notion that good ...
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Preferential trade agreements trends and developments in Asia and the Pacific 2023/2024
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-15)• The Asia-Pacific region continues to be the largest contributor to the worldwide build-up of preferential trade agreements (PTAs), accounting for about half of PTAs worldwide. PTAs have become bigger, deeper, and ...
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Foreign direct investment trends and outlook in Asia and the Pacific 2023/2024
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-15)• Asia and the Pacific witnessed US$ 302 billion worth of Greenfield projects announced in the January to September 2023 period, a staggering 35 per cent increase compared with the same period in 2022, when US$ 224 ...
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Trade in goods and services outlook in Asia and the Pacific
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-15)Merchandise goods trade• Faced with a continued shift towards spending in services, high living costs, a restrictive policy environment and geopolitical uncertainty, merchandise trade is forecasted to decline ...
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Readiness to implement the action plan to strengthen regional cooperation on social protection : Georgia
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Policy approaches to formalizing informal employment in the formal sector in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-14)The report compiles existing policy tools and and good practices adopted by Governments in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean on formalizing informal employment in the formal sector. To provide a ...
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Regional Road map to support regional cooperation for the wider deployment of sustainable smart transport systems in Asia and the Pacific
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-14)Transport is essential for global economic and social development, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. However, its rapid expansion in the region has posed challenges, due to continued urbanization and motorization ...
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G20 compendium on investment promotion, attraction and facilitation for sustainable development : emerging G20 IPA strategy and best practice
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-13)This Compendium seeks to understand how the national IPAs of the G20 promote, attract and facilitate FDI for sustainable development, particularly in terms of the incorporation of sustainable development objectives into ...
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Disability at a glance 2023 : catalysts of change : disability inclusion in business in Asia and the Pacific
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-04)Disability-inclusive business opens a new horizon to accelerate the effective implementation of disability-inclusive development. Disability-inclusive development ensures the meaningful participation of persons with ...
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Food losses in international trade : case studies from Asia and the Pacific
(UN. ESCAP, 2023-12)Food losses in the international supply chain (ISC) has emerged as an important area due to high socio-economic costs which poses significant challenges of food security, waste management and climate change. According ...
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Trade regulations for climate action : new insights from the global non-tariff measures database
(UNCTAD, 2023-12)This report examines the use of trade-related regulations, known as non-tariff measures (NTMs), in support of domestic and international climate change mitigation efforts. The analysis can help policymakers and other ...
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Accelerating the transition of public transport fleets
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Pacific perspectives 2023 : advocating the aspirations of Small Islands Developing States
(United Nations, 2023-11-21)Pacific Small Island Developing States are going through a unique socio-economic transformation. Shaped by their geographical locations and climate -induced vulnerabilities, development indicators like income per capita ...
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Feasibility study on cross-border electronic exchange of trade data : Timor-Leste
(United Nations, 2023-11-20)This report aims to study the feasibility of and establish a stepwise approach for engaging in cross-border electronic exchange of trade-related data and documents by Timor-Leste with its neighbouring and partner ...
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Feasibility study framework on cross-border electronic exchange of trade data - Bhutan
(United Nations, 2023-11-20)This report aims to study the feasibility of and establish a stepwise approach for engaging in cross-border electronic exchange of trade-related data and documents by Bhutan with its neighbouring and partner countries. ...
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E-Commerce for inclusive development : policy considerations
(United Nations, 2023-11-17)Often, we hear that e-commerce holds immense promise in driving inclusive development. In the E-commerce and Development Report 2002, Kofi A. Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, urged the international ...
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Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation in the United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) 2023
(United Nations, 2023-11-17)This report is part of a global survey effort on the implementation of trade facilitation and paperless trade measures, undertaken jointly by the five United Nations Regional Commissions for Africa (ECA), Europe (ECE), ...
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Review on the impacts of climate change on rice production and cross- sectoral transboundary water issues in the Lower Mekong Basin
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-11)This report presents a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change on rice production and the broader implications for water management in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), a region of immense ecological, ...
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2023 review of climate ambition in Asia and the Pacific : just transition towards regional net-zero climate resilient development
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-11)Climate change and its impacts, such as extreme weather patterns and rising sea levels, are devastating and unprecedented. In the Asia-Pacific region, typhoons, floods, heatwaves and droughts, are resulting in human and ...