Transitioning the energy sector to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the objectives of the Paris Agreement presents a complex and difficult task for policymakers. It needs to ensure sustained economic ...

<p>ESCAP implemented a project on the &ldquo;Role of the informal service sector in poverty alleviation&rdquo;, with generous financial support from the Government of Netherlands. The project focused on petty trading, ...

<p>In 1983, the Regional Co-ordination Centre for Research and Development of Coarse Grains, Pulses, Roots and Tuber Crops (CGPRT Centre), the Central Research Institute for Food Crops (CRIFC) and the Bogor Research Institute ...

<p>In recent years the so-called institutional aspects of markets are receiving more attention. In part the expanded attention for institutional explanations of markets is a counter movement against the rigid analysis of ...

By Nagesh Kumar, Pierre Sauvé, Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Santi Chaisrisawatsuk and Wisit Chaisrisawatsuk, Tulus Tambunnan, Tham Siew Yean and Andrew Kam Jia Yi, Rashmi Banga. <p></p> As economic integration continues, the ...

The Committee for Co-ordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (referred to briefly as the Co-ordinating Committee for Offshore Prospecting, and abbreviated to CCOP) is an intergovernmental ...

<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 ...

ICT tools assist the stakeholders to receive, communicate, disseminate, store and process information and also assist them in project planning and monitoring processes. As no single ICT tool or tool set is adequate for all ...

The present collection of studies brought together in this volume is rather unique. The Centre has engaged for some time in identifying competitive advantage and comparative advantage among CGPRT Crops. Usually such studies ...

The ESCAP secretariat undertook a review of five case studies in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines where interventions in the transport sector contributed substantially or played a catalytic role ...