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Presentation. Transport Connectivity in SPECA Region. 2019 SPECA Economic Forum
No full textTheme: Connectivity: Trade and Transport Facilitation and Sustainable Development in the SPECA RegionSession I:Transport Connectivity in the SPECA subregio
Presentation. Draft roadmap of implementation of the SPECA trade facilitation strategy. Fourteenth session of the SPECA Working Group on Trade
No full textPresentation. OSCE centre in Ashgabat : the activities in the area of trade and transport in Turkmenistan. Fourteenth session of the SPECA Working Group on Trade
No full textPresentation. SPECA regional trade facilitation strategy. Third High-Level Seminar on Trade in Central Asia and Thirteenth Session of the SPECA Working Group on Trade
No full textPresentation. Digital and sustainable trade facilitation in Asia and the Pacific : key findings from the UN Global Survey 2019. 2019 SPECA Economic Forum
No full textTheme: Connectivity: Trade and Transport Facilitation and Sustainable Development in the SPECA Regio
Piloting Sustainable Urban Transport Index (SUTI) in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
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An emerging but vulnerable middle class : a description of trends in Asia and the Pacific
Get PDFThis paper examines the extent to which economic growth in Asia and the Pacific has translated in an increasing middle class. Using international poverty lines, the regional's population is divided into four income groups to estimate those living in poverty according to middle-income country and high-income country standards. Estimates indicate that between 1999 and 2015, 1.2 billion people moved into the Asia-Pacific middle class, while the share tripled from 13 to 39 per cent of the total population. This expansion, however, did not translate in an income-secure middle class, as almost 1 billion people still live at risk of falling back into poverty. Examination at the country-level reveals that big disparities persist in the region
Review of sustainable transport connectivity in Asia and the Pacific 2019 : addressing the challenges for freight transport
No full textThe Review of Sustainable Transport Connectivity in Asia and the Pacific: Addressing the Challenges for Freight Transport is the biennial publication of Transport Division. The edition of 2019 is produced at the three-year mark of the five-year Regional Action Programme for Sustainable Transport Connectivity in Asia and the Pacific (2017-2021). It is focused on assessing the state of transport connectivity in the region and posits that, ultimately, sustainable freight transport cannot be attained in the absence of sustainable transport connectivity. While the Asia and Pacific region has made measurable progress in addressing transport connectivity gaps, the high overall regional performance is driven by a few top performers, thus, hiding significant subregional variations.
The attainment of sustainable freight transport systems represents a significant challenge with multiple technical, operational, and policy aspects. The environmental impact of the dominantly road-centric and fossil fuel dependent freight transport sector under suboptimal connectivity conditions is systematically exacerbating the contribution of the sector to climate change, making the regional transport system more vulnerable to climate and hazard-related disasters and is rapidly placing the region among the highest CO2 emitting regions in the world, especially when taking into account projected growth through 2050. Building on available data and indicators for the region, ESCAP analysis shows that, indeed, intermodality can increase the sustainability of connectivity by reducing transport related CO2 emissions and road traffic crashes, in part owing to expected changes in the modal split. While the flexibility of road transport will continue to place it among the most utilized modes of transport, there is scope for policy instruments to make meaningful interventions in support of greater use of coastal shipping, inland water transport and railways and in support of accelerated decarbonization of road freight transport.
The key drivers of the shift to sustainable freight transport are technology and innovation, private sector engagement and the enabling role of public policy as formulated at the national and regional levels. While technology and innovation will play a key role in the future development of the transport sector, transport policymakers and regulators will also need to focus on new security risks and to the limitations of the impact of technology on the overall sustainability performance.
This analysis lends further support to the established role of ESCAP as an intergovernmental platform for promoting seamless and sustainable transport connectivity through better integrated infrastructure across modes and a more balanced modal split that would enable growing demand to be accommodated on proportionately less infrastructure and fewer transport operations, with materially better service to users and significant energy savings. Transition to sustainable transport connectivity, especially when it comes to freight, is, therefore, seen as a major stepping-stone in moving towards a truly sustainable development
Sustainable Urban Transport Index : Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Women's political participation and leadership
Get PDFThis policy brief suggests measures to increase women’s leadership in politics.
Women’s leadership in political spheres is shown to be socially beneficial (World Economic Forum, 2017), and is a matter
of women’s right to equal opportunity and access. While in the Asia Pacific region women’s political participation has
increased since the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995, the region lags behind global trends: women’s parliamentary
representation in Lower or Single House in the region is 20%, whereas the global average is 25%.
Though there has been progress over the past 25 years (Figure 1), there is still much room for improvement to reach the
30 percent threshold. Sub-regions face different challenges with regards to women’s political participation. For instance,
while East and Northeast Asia currently has the highest representation of women in parliament, the rate of the change
has been the slowest. If the current rate of annual change can be sustained, North and Central Asia would be the only
sub-region to meet the 30% threshold by 2030.
Though there are different patterns across the region, all countries may consider the strategies in this brief to stimulate
women’s political leadership.</p