Rising inequality threatens to derail, from the start, successful implementation of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific region. Stronger, more equitable social protection will be critical in overcoming these challenges.
22/03/2016Read more
A new book from FAO suggests that countries learn from the example of Kazakhstan, where conservation agriculture practices – zero-tillage, retention of crop residues and crop rotations – have helped wheat farmers achieve high yields even during severe droughts.
03/02/2016Read more
Over the next two weeks, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Dr. Shamshad Akhtar will meet with Heads of State and Government, senior ministers, leading academics and representatives of the private sector across North and Central Asia as part of a mission to deepen collaboration between ESCAP and member States in the subregion.
02/02/2016Read more
As the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus celebrate the 25th anniversary of their independence, structural reform has become critical. The key to meeting many of the challenges, and seizing the opportunities of the changing global environment is closer regional economic integration with the rest of Asia and the Pacific.
29/01/2016Read more
The global average surface temperature in 2015 broke all previous records by a strikingly wide margin, at 0.76±0.1° Celsius above the 1961-1990 average.
26/01/2016Read more
China wants to launch its own digital currency to cut the costs of circulating traditional paper money and boost policymakers’ control of money supply, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on Wednesday.
21/01/2016Read more
Economic and financial stability in Asia is critical as we embark on the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a universal and ambitious blueprint that expands the horizons of policymaking to implement the 17 new Sustainable Development Goals, reduce the region’scollective environmental footprint and securethe resources necessaryto build the future we want.
14/01/2016Read more
The world population number as of 1 January 2016 projected at the level of almost 7.3 billion people, the US Census Bureau said.
31/12/2015Read more
Over land, by air and by sea, the people of Asia and the Pacific are on the move – this is the finding of the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Migration Report, the result of United Nations research led by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(ESCAP) and the International Organization for Migration.
18/12/2015Read more
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