Reports
Recent Submissions
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Digital and sustainable trade facilitation in Asia and the Pacific 2023
(United Nations, 2024-03-26)The Asia-Pacific 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 – ECA, ESCAP, ...
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Financial resilience, inclusion, and entrepreneurship : is Asia and the Pacific close to gender parity?
(UN.ESCAP, 2024-03-13)ESCAP’s report Financial resilience, inclusion and entrepreneurship: Is Asia and the Pacific close to gender parity?, presents and analyses of a non-exhaustive set of indicators on women’s access to finance and ...
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Implementing the ICPD agenda : 10 years into the Asia-Pacific ecperience : a status report
(United Nations, 2004)This report, prepared collaboratively by ESCAP and UNFPA, offers a regional perspective on the progress made towards achieving the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) goals and identifies ...
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Building capacity for technology transfer for small and medium enterprises in least developed countries
(United Nations, 2003)This paper concentrate on reviewing and examining the issues as to how a least developed country such as Nepal can promote FDI, and through it, build up technological capability for economic development and competitiveness.
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ESCAP Regional Trade Agreement Text Analyzer: User Guide
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-02-15)The ESCAP REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENT TEXT ANALYZER, available at [https://tiid.shinyapps.io/text-analysis-tool/] provides a tool for automated mapping of provisions or topics addressed in articles of trade agreements, and ...
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Readiness to implement the action plan to strengthen regional cooperation on social protection : Philippines
(United Nations, 2023-07)In 2020, ESCAP member States endorsed the regional Action Plan to Strengthen Regional Cooperation on Social Protection (Action Plan), which serves as a shared vision, strategy and platform for promoting partnership and ...
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Readiness to implement the action plan to strengthen regional cooperation on social protection : Mongolia
(United Nations, 2023)Governments in Asia and the Pacific are increasingly recognizing social protection as a key policy instrument to build productive, protected and healthy populations. In 2020, ESCAP member States endorsed the Action Plan ...
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Readiness to implement the action plan to strengthen regional cooperation on social protection : Maldives
(United Nations, 2023)Social protection is a key policy instrument to build productive, protected and healthy populations. In 2020, ESCAP member States endorsed the Action Plan to Strengthen Regional Cooperation on Social Protection in Asia ...
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The landscape of B2C e-commerce marketplaces in East Asia
(UN.ESCAP, 2024)The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered business strategies, especially for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), and consumer behavior. In fact, MSMEs now recognize the potential of e-commerce to ...
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Understanding every step of cross-border e-commerce: exporting electronic products from China to Malaysia
(UN.ESCAP, 2024)Cross-border e-commerce allows small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) worldwide to directly sell their products to overseas consumers through cross-border e-commerce platforms. This has opened up trade opportunities ...
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Understanding every step of cross-border e-commerce: exporting food products from Chile to China
(UN.ESCAP, 2024-03-14)The topic of cross-border e-commerce has become a focal point in discussions at global, regional, and national levels. Despite the considerable interest it has attracted, there's a pronounced gap in our understanding, ...
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Regional digital trade integration index (Version 2.0) : a guide
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Digital trade regulatory review for Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean 2024
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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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Physical profile of cities in the ESCAP region
(UN.ESCAP, 1982-06-09)This report has been prepared as the background information to be used for the regional congress of local authorities for development of human settlements in Asia and the Pacific, which is to be held from 9th—16th ...
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Proceedings of the Seminar on Geochemical Prospecting Methods and Techniques
(United Nations, 1963)This publication contains the report and the principal documents of the Seminar on Geochemical Prospecting Methods and Techniques, which was held at Bangkok, Thailand from 5 to 14 August 1963 under the sponsorship of ...
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Water and power development in East Pakistan
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Policies to promote private sector engagement in Science, Technology and Innovation : Workbook
(UN.ESCAP, 2024-02-29)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, ...