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Statistical newsletter. No. 60, December 1985
No full textThe Statistical Newsletter is published quarterly by the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Statistical newsletter. No. 45, March 1982
No full textThe Statistical Newsletter is published quarterly by the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Towards a roadmap for inclusive business in wellness tourism in Indonesia
Get PDFTourism 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 country as an attractive destination for tourists. In 2018, tourism was responsible for 10.3 per cent of the total employment in Indonesia and over 6 per cent of national GDP. Because of a signicant increase in foreign visitors since 2016, these numbers were expected to increase until the COVID-19 pandemic hit the tourism sector in early 2020. In 2019, the President of Indonesia selected tourism as one of priority sectors because of its strong potential for higher economic growth, its catalytic effect on other industries, and its contribution to more inclusive growth.
The Government of Indonesia selected wellness tourism as a pilot sector for promoting inclusive business (IB). Because of the strategic relevance for inclusive economic growth, the Government of Indonesia selected the wellness tourism as a pilot sector for promoting IB in the country. Against this background, the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs officially requested United Nations ESCAP– in the context of its IB capacity building work for ASEAN member countries – to assist the Government of Indonesia in designing a roadmap for promoting IB in wellness tourism. For that purpose, this report presents an analysis of the enabling environment for IB in wellness tourism, highlights selected IB models in the sector that could serve as good practice examples, and outlines recommendations for a possible roadmap for promoting IB in wellness tourism in Indonesia. Indonesia can build on existing IB models in the wellness tourism sector and initiatives that promote IB in tourism, including from GIZ.</p
Asia-Pacific guidelines to data integration for official statistics
Get PDFThe Asia-Pacific Guidelines to Data Integration for Official Statistics is the result of collective efforts of the members of the Data Integration Community of Practice (DI-CoP) to adapt the guide developed by ECE for the Asia-Pacific region. This publication gives practical advice and information to advance data integration activities by statistical organizations. The guidelines target managers, statisticians, methodologists, information and communication technology professionals and other staff members of statistical organizations who use data integration in the production of official statistics.
It reviews requirements and challenges of integrating data for producing official statistics, provides solutions and presents relevant examples from the Asia-Pacific region. </p
Fiscal policy options to build forward better
Get PDFAmid tighter fiscal space in Asia and the Pacific, this paper examines how the region’s economies can mobilize additional fiscal and financial resources to ensure public debt sustainability while achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It explores four selected policy areas, including public debt service suspension, sovereign bond financing, debt swaps for development, and catastrophe finance. While offering some specific policy recommendations, this paper notes at a broad level that developing countries in the region could further benefit from existing debt relief initiatives; governments should increasingly explore bond financing to complement traditional fiscal borrowings; creditors and debtors can work more closely to increase the effectiveness of debt swap arrangements; and countries need to have a mix of financing modalities that match their catastrophe risks. Individual Asia-Pacific countries should carefully consider the instruments and modalities that leverage their strengths and are implementable given institutional capacity
South and South-West Asia Development Monitor No. 22
No full textThis is the latest issue of the ESCAP South and South-West Asia Development Monitor
The Development Monitor is a bimonthly electronic newsletter, launched in early 2012 (issued on a monthly basis initially), which provides an overview of the work and activities undertaken by the ESCAP South and South-West Asia Office and conferences and knowledge products of relevance to the subregion. The newsletter also provides a compilation of news and articles on themes covered by the ESCAP SSWA work programme.
Regional cooperation is critical for addressing shared vulnerabilities in South and South-West Asia, underscored India’s Minister for Commerce and Industry, H.E. E.M.S Natchiappan, in his inaugural address to the Policy Dialogue on Regional Cooperation, Connectivity and Inclusive Development organized by ESCAP-SSWA on 28-29 November 2013 in New Delhi. The event assembled over 100 Government official, policymakers, substantive experts, academia and civil society representatives from 10 South and South-West Asian countries to review the most pressing challenges facing the subregion and ways to address them through regional cooperatio
Summary assessment of Committee on Trade and Investment, Seventh Session, 27-29 January 2021
Get PDFThe seventh session of the Committee on Trade and Investment took place on 27-29 January 2021 as a virtual meeting due to ongoing COVID-19 related travel restrictions in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
An online questionnaire assessing the relevance, effectiveness and quality of the meeting was conducted. The main purpose of the assessment is to support the secretariat’s ongoing efforts to improve its servicing of the session.
The Committee session discussed the review of recent trends and developments in trade and investment in Asia and the Pacific, including the impact of rising protectionism and the COVID-19 pandemic; promoting inward and outward foreign direct investment in the post-COVID-19 era; and the work of the secretariat and associated results and future focus pertaining to trade and investment under the subprogramme on trade, investment and innovation. </p
Putting the voluntary national review in action : developing practical next steps and planning the post-VNR period
Get PDFThe purpose of the VNR briefs is to provide policy makers with practical tools and ideas to address common challenges in the Voluntary National Review (VNR) process.Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) are the cornerstone of the national follow up and review process of the 2030 Agenda. Ensuring that VNRs feed into policymaking and are a central part of the national policy cycle is vital to accelerate implementation on the Sustainable Development Goals. The final chapter of the VNR on ‘next steps’ and ‘conclusions’ is one of the most important. The chapter can be a crucial tool to help keep up momentum and ensure follow-up of VNR commitments. Developing realistic next steps which can be acted upon will help keep the implementation momentum and enable the VNR to feed directly into policy making. This Brief provides practical steps for planning the immediate post-VNR.</p
Procedure manual : enabling e-resilience monitoring dashboard frameworks
Get PDFThe current pandemic has further underlined the need for a knowledge-based digital plan which may help to manage with crisis periods as well as lead and accelerate digital transformation.
Through the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway (AP-IS) initiative, ESCAP supports member States in increasing the availability and affordability of broadband Internet across Asia and the Pacific. ESCAP is also supporting the implementation of the Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration (RECI) initiative which aims to develop knowledge products such as analysis reports and on-line knowledge tools, and build capacity of member States in developing seamless regional Information and communications technology (ICT) connectivity while managing external disturbance, environmental risks and shared vulnerabilities.
The ability to properly measure e-resilience is a key component of successful disaster risk management and adaptation in the recovery period. Quantitative, indicator-based assessments can be applied to evaluate e-resilience by combining particularly relevant
ICT and disaster risk reduction (DRR) related indicators of performance into a single composite dashboard.
Bearing in mind all the above, ESCAP created an on-line e-resilience dashboard to solidify the common awareness and shared understanding of e-resilience and ways to measure it at the national level from pandemic management perspective, which may be seen as a step forward, towards digital transformation.
ESCAP’s new interactive toolkit on e-resilience is aimed to support and accelerate action plan 2022-2026 under the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway (AP-IS). This dashboard is an example, which may be updated and replicated based on the specific needs of a member-state under specific circumstances, requiring the knowledge-based planning and sound actions from the policymakers.
This document is aimed to describe general workflow needed to create a simple monitoring dashboard, augmented by practical examples taken from of development ESCAP’s new e-resilience monitoring dashboard.</p