The Great Upheaval
Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific’
$309.97
- Hardcover
426 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2022
Summary
At the turn of the 21st Century, Asia pulled one billion people out of poverty in one generation, a meteoric rise suddenly stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume examines the strengths of the Asian-Pacific response to the pandemic and weaknesses that the region must re-engineer to rebound. It reimagines social and economic pathways to revamp production modes and networks to rekindle sustainable growth.
Home to two-thirds of the world’s population, the Asia-Pacific Region alread…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009224321 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009224328 |
| Author: | Kanni Wignaraja, Swarnim Waglé |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 426 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 670g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 31mm |
About The Author
Kanni Wignaraja
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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