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2023 : Leaving no one behind : Cambodia country brief
No full textLeaving No One Behind (LNOB) tool helps discover how different circumstances interact to create unequal access to basic opportunities in Asia and the Pacific. The LNOB country brief for Cambodia provides insights into which groups are further ahead and further behind in various SDG indicators and where the biggest gaps are found in terms of access to opportunities or prevalence of barriers between the furthest behind and the furthest ahead groups in Cambodia. </p
Public expenditures and inequality in Asia-Pacific : understanding the relationship
No full textThis paper was prepared as part of background research for the Economic and Social Survey for Asia and the Pacific 202The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of inclusive and resilient growth and the role of fiscal policy in ensuring a better outcome. This policy brief examines the relationship between income inequality and government expenditures on education, health, housing and social protection in the Asia-Pacific region. It draws policy lessons for making public social spending a more potent tool for promoting inclusive growth.
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Asia-Pacific tech monitor. Vol. 39, No. 3, Jul-Sep 2022
Get PDFSpecial Theme: Regional cooperation for innovation and technology transfer – emerging strategies, models and collaborative networks
Innovation and technologies are key to achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, the availability, access, and successful adoption of innovations and technologies remain a challenge, particularly for many developing and least-developed countries. Despite the technological advances in recent decades, a large share of the population, especially in low-income countries, still struggles to progress on development parameters such as health and education.
Strengthened cross-border collaborations and regional cooperation can facilitate faster development, transfer, and adoption of innovative technologies and applications to foster sustainable development across Asia and the Pacific. There are different mechanisms that can contribute toward this objective. Co-innovation, the private sector’s participation, and public-private partnerships involving multiple stakeholders can promote innovation and strengthen regional technology cooperation among nations.
Knowledge sharing through collaborative networks and South-South cooperation is another way to enhance cooperation and adopt good examples from the region on enabling policies and the adoption of technologies. Collaborative efforts to harmonize intellectual property policies and create an enabling environment for cross-border technology transfer can help achieve this objective and accelerate the achievement of SDGs.
Regional cooperation brings economic development and environmental and social benefits but faces regulatory, financial, political, and technological challenges. APCTT-ESCAP has been playing a key role in overcoming some of these challenges by providing platforms and bringing together multiple stakeholders for policy dialogues, exchange of emerging knowledge, strategies, and good practices to facilitate evidence-based policy formulation and strengthening of capacities for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.
This issue of the Asia-Pacific Tech Monitor discusses emerging strategies, models, and collaborativenetworks to foster regional cooperation for innovation and technology in the Asia-Pacific countries. It presents a case study on Technology Transfer and Innovation for electrical energy storage technology and strategies on developing locally rooted ecosystems while contributing to global supply networks for the manufacturing sector in Southeast Asia
South Asia SDG update
No full textI. Key Activities during July - Sep 2021II. Select Outreach ActivitiesIII. ESCAP- SSWA Knowledge Products 2022IV. Countries of South and South-West Asia at the Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Forum 2022V. News excerpts on SDG Implementation Progress</p
