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Outward foreign direct investment and upgrading by emerging market firms in global value chains
(United Nations, 2021)
This report analyzes how emerging market firms upgrade their capabilities to become leading global competitors, suggesting the use of foreign investments as an upgrading mechanism in global value chains. The report introduces ...
Frontiers of inclusive innovation : formulating technology and innovation policies that leave no one behind
(United Nations, 2021)
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 ...
Landscape study of inclusive business in Viet Nam
(United Nations, 2021)
<p>Companies with inclusive business (IB) models can play a strong role in supporting such structural transformation. IB models promote inclusive growth by investing in innovative, commercially viable, and growing business ...
MSME access to finance : the role of digital payments
(United Nations, 2022)
This paper aims to examine how digitalisation, particularly digital payments innovations and innovative payment initiatives, such as central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), can play a pivotal role in fostering micro, ...
Valuing and investing in unpaid care and domestic work - country case study : Philippines
(United Nations, 2022)
<p>This case study on Cambodia enhances ESCAP’s technical and advisory assistance to its member States, in particular aligning with the ASEAN region’s efforts to bring care to the centre of public ...
Accelerating the recovery from COVID-19 and the full implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development at all levels
(Subregional Office for South and South-West Asia, 2022-12-07)
<p>The Sixth South and South-West Asia Forum on the SDGs was held in hybrid mode, from 5-7 December 2022 in Islamabad Pakistan, as a subregional preparatory meeting for the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development ...
The SME law and its impact on women entrepreneurs in Viet Nam
(United Nations, 2022)
<p>With the aim to strengthen the policy and legal environment for women-owned enterprises, the report uses multiple assessment methods to evaluate the extent of impact of the ...
Evaluation of the implementation of the Asia-Pacific plan of action on space applications for sustainable development (2018-2030) in its phase I (2018-2022)
(United Nations, 2022)
<p><strong><a href="https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/knowledge-products/3rdMC-SASD-Plan-of-Action.pdf">The Asia-Pacific Plan of Action on Space Applications for Sustainable Development (2018–2030)</a>< ...
Asia-Pacific regional review of implementation of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration (10—12 March 2021) : an analysis of its main findings and recommendations
(United Nations, 2022)
This report provides an overview of migration levels and trends in Asia and the Pacific, and analyses the different inputs to and outputs from the 2021 Asia-Pacific Regional Review, with a view to identifying emergent ...
COVID-19 and the unpaid care economy in Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations, 2021)
<p>To leave no one behind and to reach those furthest behind first are the essential ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Within that mandate, Sustainable Development Goal 5 (achieving gender ...