The Great Upheaval: Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific’

Author:   Swarnim Waglé ,  Kanni Wignaraja
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9781009224321


Pages:   426
Publication Date:   26 May 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Swarnim Waglé ,  Kanni Wignaraja
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9781009224321


ISBN 10:   1009224328
Pages:   426
Publication Date:   26 May 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; List of Appendices; List of Abbreviations; Foreword Achim Steiner; Acknowledgements; Introduction Swarnim Waglé and Kanni Wignaraja; 1. Aligning Sovereign Debt Financing with Climate Action in the Asia-Pacific Region Manuel F. Montes; 2. Melting Glaciers, Threatened Livelihoods: Confronting Climate Change to Save the Third Pole Arnico K. Panday; 3. Accelerating Universal Digital Connectivity Paul Garnett; 4. The Post-COVID-19 Future for Global Value Chains Ben Shepherd; 5. Is Southeast Asia Falling into a Latin American–Style Middle-Income Trap? José Gabriel Palma and Jonathan Pincus; 6. Equality of Opportunity as a Measure of Development Avidit Acharya and John Roemer; 7. Insights for Policymaking from the Multidimensional Poverty Index Sabina Alkire and Alexandra Fortacz; 8. COVID-19 and Human Insecurity A. K. Shiva Kumar; 9. Making COVID-19 Vaccine Universally Accessible Partha Mukhopadhyay; 10. Enhancing the Provision of Global Public Goods: Ready for More Realism? Inge Kaul; 11. Asian-Pacific Regional Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era Khalil Hamdani; 12. Pandemic Governance and Human Development: Early Lessons from Asia Sakiko Fukuda-Parr; 13. Seven Lessons for Development Policy from the COVID-19 Pandemic Sanjay Reddy; About the Contributors; Index.

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Swarnim Waglé is the chief economic advisor at the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in New York. Waglé also chairs the Institute for Integrated Development Studies, a South Asian think-tank. Previously, he served as a member and vice-chair of the National Planning Commission of Nepal (for three intermittent years between 2014 and 2018) and as a senior economist at The World Bank in Washington, D.C. and UNDP in Hanoi, Colombo and New York. Kanni Wignaraja is the United Nations assistant secretary-general and director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. Previously the director of the United Nations Development Operations Coordination Office, Wignaraja has worked for the UN for over 25 years in the United States and the Asia-Pacific and Africa Regions, including as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Zambia. Wignaraja has published articles on human rights, development policy, leadership and sustainability.

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