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What is the impact on Asia-Pacific of the global
financial crisis? Why commodity price volatility
and climate change threaten long-term
development? What are the key policy challenges
and opportunities for the region? Find the
answers to these questions in the
Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the
Pacific 2009.

Highlights

Addressing triple threats to development

  • discusses three crises that threaten the development process in Asia-Pacific
  • evaluates their differential impact across countries and sub regions
  • identifies key policy responses for the short- and long-term

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Download the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009, PowerPoint Presentaion presented in various launching locations, and previous issues of the Survey.

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Figures


The developing countries of the region managed to maintain an average growth rate of 5.8%, as compared with –0.4% in Asia-Pacific developed economies.

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Photo Gallery


Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAP, and H.E. Mr. Korbsak Sabhavasu, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, at the global launch on 26 March in Bangkok.

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