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Asia-Pacific tech monitor. Vol. 23, No. 3, May - Jun 2006
No full textSMEs in new economy sectors : Malaysia's innovative programmes / Awari V.Mohan
Encouraging innovation in Malaysia : Appropriate sources of finance / Cassey Lee and Lee Chew-Ging
R&D and innovation in china : An overview of financing programmes / Ministry of Science and Technology
Innovation financing in Hong Kong : Innovation and Technology fund / Innovation and Technology Commission
The bottom of the pyramid : Innovations in financing for low-price markets / A.S Ra
Debt-for-climate swaps as a tool to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement
Get PDFThis policy brief on Debt-for-climate swaps as a tool to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement isan extract of ESCAP’s 2021 publication Financing the SDGs to build forward better from the COVID-19pandemic in Asia and the PacificUnder the Paris Agreement, developed and developing countries have committed to do their part to ensure that the warming of the planet is capped at well below 2 °C above pre- industrial levels and are pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre- industrial levels. These commitments are reflected in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which countries are required to submit every five years.
However, with COVID-19 recovery efforts demanding a massive increase in government expenditure amid slowing economic activity, sovereign debt levels have risen sharply in 2020 and are likely to remain high in the near future. Currently, 11 Asia-Pacific countries are at high risk of debt distress, seven of which are Pacific Small Island Developing States: Afghanistan, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tajikistan, Tonga and Tuvalu.
Furthermore, as countries prioritize addressing health concerns and a speedy economic recovery, relatively less attention is being paid to tackling climate change. Given this situation, there has been increasing support for debt-for-climate swaps as a solution to simultaneously reduce sovereign debt burdens and increase financing to scale up investments in climate mitigation and adaptation projects. Earlier this year, the Managing Director of the IMF announced that the IMF and the World Bank are working together to develop an “organizing framework” for connecting debt relief to countries’ plans for investing in green, resilient and inclusive development. Their joint proposal for green debt swaps will be announced during COP 26.</p
Asia-Pacific tech monitor. Vol. 21, No. 3, May - Jun 2004
No full textInternational technology transfer : Efforts by UNIDO and other agencies / T. Miyake
Technology transfer definitions : Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology
Obstacles to technology transfer : What the practitioners want from the government / Kil-choo Moon, Jong-bok Park, Chi-ho Choi and Soo-hong Chae
Technology transfer trends : The Indian experience / S. P. Agarwal, Ashwani Gupta and G. P. Gandhi
Technology transfer agreements : Overview of contractual terms / World Intellectual Property Organization
Integration for technology : China's NTEM learns from the experience of developed countries / Liu Youlin
Tools of the technology transfer trade : Licensing intellectual property from university to industry / Behfar Bastani, Evelyn Mintarno and Dennis Fernande
Assessment of urban mobility using the sustainable urban transport index : Palembang City, Indonesia
Get PDFPalembang is the capital city of South Sumatera Province. Since 2007, Palembang divided administratively 16 Subdistrict and 107 villages. In 2018, based on the Decree number 136/4123/BAK, Jakabaring Subdistrict was formed which is the division of the Subdistrict Seberang Ulu I and Ilir Timur III Subdistrict which is the division of the Ilir Timur II Subdistrict, so that the administrative area of Palembang Municipality is divided into 18 sub districts and 107 villages. For additional reports or materials on Sustainable urban transport index, please click here
Sustainable urban transport index for Bangkok and impacts of COVID-19 on mobility
Get PDFBangkok, the Capital of Thailand, is located on the Lower Central Plain over Chao Phraya delta at the top of the Gulf of Thailand. It is home to almost six million people. Its true extent may cover some other nearby provinces which now appear to be inseparable from Bangkok. The greater Bangkok may host more than 10 million inhabitants who live, work, shop, play and do many other activities in one day. The city itself covers an area of 1,568.73 square kilometers. This makes the population density of the city equals to 3,690 persons per square kilometers.
A recent survey in 2018 shows that 32 million trips are made daily, 70% of which are made by private vehicles. This makes Bangkok one of the most congested city in the world with 10.7 and 14.2 kilometers per hour average speed in the peak morning and evening periods respectively.
Bangkok Metropolitan Authority has developed Bangkok Development Plan (2013-2032) to establish a framework in providing public services and to prioritize long-term project investment. The 20-year development plan is divided into four phases of 5 years so that the goals and measures can be reviewed and evaluated. Currently the second development plan (2018-2022) is in effect with a vision of “convenient metropolitan”. For additional reports or materials on Sustainable urban transport index, please click here
Estimating the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Asia-Pacific LDCs
Get PDFThis technical note was prepared as a background note for the Asia-Pacific Countries with Special
Needs Development Report 2021: Strengthening the resilience of least developed countries in the
wake of the coronavirus disease pandemic – Lessons for the next programme of action (Sales No.
E.21.II.F.7).This technical note provides a brief review of
global poverty estimates of the impact of the
pandemic and proposes a new estimate for
Asia-Pacific LDCs. It finds that by 2021, the
pandemic could push around 3.4 million
people into extreme poverty based on the
3.20-per-day
poverty line in Asia-Pacific LDCs. The
application of the same methodology to all
Asia-Pacific developing countries reveals that
nearly 90 million people could be pushed into
extreme poverty and over 150 million and 170
million under the 5.50 poverty
lines, respectively, by 2021.
The extent to which households, especially
the poorest will gain from the ongoing fiscal
impulses and economic growth regains will
play an important role in explaining the pace
of poverty curb in LDCs and developing Asia-
Pacific. A more inclusive and broader
approach to recovery should remain a priority.</p
Achieving the SDGs in South Asia : an integrated approach to accelerate SDG progress and COVID-19 recovery
Get PDFBuilding back better and advancing
the full implementation of the 2030 agendaSouth Asia’s pace of progress towards the SDGs to date has been less than adequate. The COVID-19 outbreak, which has escalated into a global humanitarian crisis responsible for erasing developmental achievements attained over many years, places more hurdles along the subregion’s sustainable development pathways. The pandemic has exposed critical development gaps and vulnerabilities particular to South Asia, exerting pervasive adverse impacts manifested across almost all the SDG indicators.
Achieving the SDGs in South Asia calls for adopting an integrated approach to SDG implementation and post-pandemic recovery, given the commonalities between development policy priorities and considering the need to maximize the utility of limited resources to address the twin challenges.
The urgency to accelerate SDG progress necessitates that South Asia follows an implementation pathway that takes advantage of existing synergies between Goals and targets. Building on the sustainable development policy priorities identified for South Asia, the report proposes a five-point SDG action agenda. The framework includes: structural diversification of the economy oriented towards industrialization; investments in the core social sectors of education and health; expansion of social protection and basic infrastructure networks; ensuring food security, sustainable agriculture and rural development; and building capacities for clean energy and environmental sustainability. The cumulative impacts of different components of the proposed framework, with spillover effects on numerous development targets, can potentially double South Asia’s GDP by 2030 in an inclusive way, thereby providing the subregion with greater likelihood of success on the SDGs.</p
Evaluation of the Regional Action Programme for Sustainable Transport Connectivity in Asia and the Pacific - Phase I (2017-2021)
No full textCommissioned by Transport Division, ESCAPThe evaluation of the Regional Action Programme for Sustainable Transport Connectivity in Asia and the Pacific (Phase I) was launched in December 2020 and completed in August 2021. The evaluation was conducted by an external evaluator in close cooperation with the Transport Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
The evaluation goal was to inform deliberations in the Ministerial Conference on the implementation of the RAP (Phase I), provide recommendations for improvement and set the vision for the next five years in a new regional action programme focusing on the three pillars of sustainability (economic, social, and environmental) in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The evaluation applied a participatory approach and used various data collection techniques such as semi-structured interviews with key internal and external stakeholders, online surveys, and structured documentary analyses.LIST OF ACRONYMS......................................................................................................................5TABLES AND FIGURES...................................................................................................................6EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................71. INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................... 11BACKGROUND OF THE EVALUATION..........................................................................................................11PURPOSE, OBJECTIVES, AND SCOPE...........................................................................................................112. OBJECT OF EVALUATION DESCRIPTION AND CONTEXT............................................................. 133. METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................... 16EVALUATION METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................16EVALUATION LIMITATIONS ......................................................................................................................184. FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................... 19RELEVANCE ..........................................................................................................................................19EFFECTIVENESS .....................................................................................................................................33EFFICIENCY...........................................................................................................................................40GENDER MAINSTREAMING .....................................................................................................................435. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................................. 466. LESSONS LEARNED ................................................................................................................. 49REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................. 50ANNEXES ................................................................................................................................... 52 </p