Fostering Sustainable Development

Fostering Sustainable Development
Author: Nwanze Okidegbe
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780821339411

Peace and reconstruction efforts in 1996 dramatically altered the landscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina and brought many tangible benefits to its people. These efforts have already led to improvements in the areas of health, education, unemployment, and infrastructure repair. Sustaining and broadening the positive developments of the past year will be the key task for the country and the international community in 1997-98. This country study examines the near-term reform issues that are essential to generating employment and providing a firm institutional and policy foundation for reconstruction and sustained economic growth. The main areas of emphasis will be on policy and budget reforms--involving institutions for macroeconomic management and bank and enterprise privatization--and reforms affecting labor markets and the social safety net.

South Asia's Path to Resilient Growth

South Asia's Path to Resilient Growth
Author: Mr. Ranil M Salgado
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2022-12-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

South Asia’s Path to Sustainable and Inclusive Growth highlights the remarkable development progress in South Asia and how the region can advance in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Steps include a renewed push toward greater trade and financial openness, while responding proactively to the distributional impact and dislocation associated with this structural transformation. Promoting a green and digital recovery remains important. The book explores ways to accelerate the income convergence process in the region, leveraging on the still-large potential demographic dividend in most of the countries. These include greater economic diversification and export sophistication, trade and foreign direct investment liberalization and participation in global value chains amid shifting regional and global conditions, financial development, and investment in human capital.

Energy Cooperation in South Asia

Energy Cooperation in South Asia
Author: Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781032236926

This book analyses the key political challenges to regional energy cooperation in South Asia. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy security and geopolitics, natural resource governance and South Asian politics.

Social Development and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia

Social Development and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia
Author: Nitya Mohan Khemka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 135103524X

This book assesses the roadmap for the implementation of the SDGs in South Asia, focusing in particular on the areas of poverty reduction, inequality, health/well-being and water and sanitation. South Asia is amongst the fastest growing regions in the world, with an aggregate GDP in excess of two trillion US dollars, but at the same time it has significant deficits in human development, with 37 per cent of the world's poor and nearly half of the world's malnourished children. For South Asia, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a constructive opportunity to end many of the region's deprivations in a time-bound and systematic manner. Starting with the legacy of the Millennium Development Goals, the book goes on to provide a country-by-country overview of strategies for addressing the problems of poverty, health, water and sanitation. South-South Cooperation and in particular the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) are discussed and, finally, the editors present a summary of policy priorities for social development. This book aims to be a useful resource for researchers, policy influencers, planners, implementers, students, and activists aiming to push to achieve the SDGs.

Fostering Sustainable Development in South Asia

Fostering Sustainable Development in South Asia
Author: Sustainable Development Policy Institute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Economic conversion
ISBN: 9789693523812

Papers presented at the Twelfth Sustainable Development Conference of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in 2009.

Development, Governance and Environment in South Asia

Development, Governance and Environment in South Asia
Author: Mohammad Alauddin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349276316

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

Science Diplomacy for South Asian Countries

Science Diplomacy for South Asian Countries
Author: Malti Goel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811630259

This book provides a science diplomacy outlook as a new governance tool in international cooperation. It elaborates on India's current S&T collaboration with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and science policy and science diplomacy in India. The book introduces concepts and contours of science diplomacy with international examples. It presents insights into international governance models, mega-science projects, and science diplomacy's role in addressing global climate change and sustainable development challenges. The book is a valuable reference to spark breakthroughs in India’s science diplomacy with its neighbouring countries for scientists, diplomats, policymakers, government, and non-government institutions interested in science and diplomacy.

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in Asia

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in Asia
Author: Sara Hsu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 836
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351008188

In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development. Simultaneously, the stakes of survival are rising, as climate change exacerbates both environmental and social ills. Asia as a region is particularly vulnerable, as it is densely populated and includes both developed and developing countries. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in Asia seeks to examine these issues in depth. Presenting a comprehensive literature review, as well as numerous case studies, this book examines sustainable development from economic and social perspectives, as well as from an environmental viewpoint. Divided into seven parts, the topics addressed include: Environmental challenges Energy dependence and transition Economic justice Social welfare Sustainable governance Providing comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of countries in the region, this handbook will be useful for students and scholars of sustainable development, environment and society, and Asian Studies in general.