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Как реализовать потенциал НТМ в достижении целей устойчивого развития и передовой опыт упрощения процедур торговли во время кризиса и пандемии
No full textESCAP disability inclusion policy
Get PDFThe ESCAP Disability Inclusion Policy is developed in line with the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) launched by the Secretary-General in June 2019. The UNDIS aims at undertaking transformative and lasting change through inclusion of persons with disabilities and by leaving no one behind in operations and programmes of the United Nations system. The Policy sets out the vision of ESCAP to be a fully disability-inclusive organization
In-depth study of the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway in CLMV Countries
Get PDFThe digital divide continues to widen as gaps in the accessibility and affordability of broadband Internet connectivity grow. While high-income economies are leveraging broadband to create value-added services and products and achieve socioeconomic progress, low-income economies are being left further behind.
Among the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar have the lowest fixed-broadband subscription rates. In fact, fixed-broadband access in these three countries was still below 1 subscription per 100 inhabitants by the end of 2017, while Singapore already had 26 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants. Another alarming trend among the three countries is their slow progress in the provision of broadband access.
Furthermore, broadband affordability in these countries, measured by broadband price as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita, does not meet the international recommendation of 2 per cent of GNI per capita or less. Broadband quality among the three countries is also relatively low compared to the international recommendation of 25Mbps, global fixed-broadband average of 70.68Mbps, or global mobile-broadband average of 30.02Mbps.
Although mobile-broadband expansion in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV countries) has been rapid and mobile phones have become the means to access the Internet for an increasing number of people, mobile networks are dependent on fixed networks to meet the increasing demand for high-speed and high-quality data transmissions.
In order to meet the emerging demands for Internet services, there is an urgent need to enhance fixed-broadband access, affordability and quality (both speed and latency) through expansion of the capacity of domestic fibre-optic networks and direct interconnectivity among CLMV countries. This would require investments in the deployment of fibre-optic infrastructure on the one hand, and the establishment of carrier-neutral Internet exchange points (IXPs) for efficient interconnections between Internet service providers (ISPs), on the other.</p
E-commerce provisions in RTAs : implications for negotiations and capacity building
Get PDFThis paper addresses the regulatory and policy environments conducive for e-commerce to thrive. In particular, as regulatory issues affecting e-commerce have become more prominent in recent regional trade agreements (RTAs), the paper seeks to investigate their role in setting the regulatory standard in this area. Indeed e-commerce- or digital trade-related obligations and commitments have grown deeper and broader in more recent RTAs compared to earlier ones. Since RTAs have become laboratories for rule-making, it is likely that some of its e-commerce-related obligations would find its way in a plurilateral/ multilateral agreement on e-commerce if one gets agreed in the future. The paper reviews previous findings on RTA provisions in e-commerce and explains the rationale for the inclusion of certain provisions in relation to promoting growth in e-commerce. It zooms in on two recent RTAs, one involving the European union, and another the Unites States of America, as both are seen as building “model provisions” to follow by others. These two agreements were not covered in past studies so this paper contributes to the completeness of literature in this regard. Based on what emerge as typical obligations and commitments in past and recent RTAs, possible negotiations and capacity building implications for least developed and middle-income developing countries are discussed
ESCAP Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness : strategic note 2021-2024
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The disaster riskscape across South and South-West Asia : key takeaways for stakeholders
Get PDFThe Disaster Riskscape across South and South-West Asia: Key Takeaways for Stakeholders, provides analysis from the APDR 2019 with specific reference to the South and South-West Asia subregion and comprehensively presents its sub-regional riskscape to inform policy actions. </p