Science, technology and innovation (STI) can increase the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of efforts to meet the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The successful adoption of existing innovations ...

This report showcases around 140 big data approaches to potentially assist traditional statistics methods in capturing and analysing data to support the calculation of SDG indicators and the achievement of SDG targets. The ...

<p>Science, technology and innovation (STI) have always been key drivers for achieving economic development and prosperity in Asia and the Pacific. The Governments of Cambodia, the Lao People&rsquo;s Democratic Republic, ...

<p>This report is an initiative of a partnership between the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Agencia Presidencial de Cooperaci&oacute;n International de Colombia (APC ...

The Frontiers of Inclusive Innovation Policy Forum was organized by ESCAP in collaboration with Digital Pathways at Oxford, the Inclusive Business Action Network (iBAN), the Honey Bee Network, and the Gujarat Grassroots ...

<p>In late 2020, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Catalyzing Women&rsquo;s Entrepreneurship (CWE) Programme, partnered with Kiva to conduct primary research on women ...

<p>Tourism is a priority sector for the Government of Indonesia and plays an important role for economic growth and employment creation. Indonesia has diverse and rich landscapes and natural ecosystems that position the ...

<p>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 their foreign direct investor identification, engagement, support and monitoring activities and the extent to which G20 IPAs measure the sustainable development payoffs, or impacts, of their investment promotion, attraction, and facilitation efforts. Since the G20 attracts most of the world&rsquo;s FDI, understanding what its IPAs are doing to better gauge and track the sustainability of the FDI they attract and service can significantly influence and encourage other IPAs to do the same.</p> <p>G20 IPAs are now firmly committed to promoting sustainable development and to attracting investment in sectors that contribute directly to key SDGs. Encouraging as this is, it is important to emphasize that this is still in a nascent phase and confined to a relatively small group &ndash; even within the G20. Outside this small sub-group, however, investment promotion seems to continue to largely be business as usual &ndash; in the traditional way. Findings suggest that for many G20 IPAs, &lsquo;investment promotion for sustainable development&rsquo; still seems to be a secondary and subsidiary task to their real job of bringing in any and as much investment as they can and have been doing for decades. In other words, investment promotion in the G20 has not yet &lsquo;gone sustainable&rsquo; enough across the board to ensure that all G20 members meet their 2030 Agenda targets.</p> <p>To this end, the Compendium stresses the crucial need to make investment in sustainable development the core, driving principle for mission statements, investor messaging, investor services and incentives. Interrelatedly, it highlights an urgent need for capacity building to equip IPAs with the necessary skills and knowledge to attract, support and expand sustainable investment. Crucial is also to increase IPA cooperation to drive sustainable investment principles to the forefront internationally and create synergies between IPAs and economies.</p>...

<p>This policy workbook provides a comprehensive guide to fostering private sector engagement in science, technology, and innovation (STI) within the context of developing economies, focusing on the experiences of Cambodia, ...

<p>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 ...