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

Examines the strengths of the Asian-Pacific response to the pandemic and weaknesses that the region must re-engineer to rebound.

Swarnim Waglé (Edited by), Kanni Wignaraja (Edited by)

9781009224321, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 May 2022

426 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 3.1 cm, 0.67 kg

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 already accounts for close to half of all global output. By 2050 – after a detour of two centuries and a few pandemics – Asia-Pacific can again become a centrifugal economic and social force. This volume sets out options for policymakers to consider as we head into a new Asia-Pacific Century, one where economic strength will be necessary but insufficient by itself, as inclusion, resilience and sustainability – once seen as moral choices – become imperatives for the planet's future.

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.

Subject Areas: Economic systems & structures [KCS], Welfare economics [KCR], Health economics [KCQ], Political economy [KCP], Development economics & emerging economies [KCM], International economics [KCL], Economic growth [KCG]