The "population Problem" in Pacific Asia

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Author: Stuart Gietel-Basten

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 019936107X

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This book argues that Asia's population aging and stagnation needs to be viewed through a multi-dimensional lens, serving as a useful resource for government workers, stakeholders, and scholars in sociology, demography, geography, and economics.--Adapted from dust jacket.


Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific

Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific

Author: United Nations Publications

Publisher: Statistical Yearbook for Asia

Published: 2016-05-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789211207163

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The Statistical Yearbook presents data for the 58 regional Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) member countries, as well as world, regional, sub-regional and economic aggregates for comparison. It offers current trends and emerging topics in the Asia-Pacific, grouped around the themes of people, the environment, the economy and connectivity. It provides the international and regional community with key indicators, objective analyses of the current trends and emerging issues, along with data and charts. In order to maximize the comparability, the Yearbook data is sourced exclusively from international agencies that adhere to the official global statistical standards.


Mega-urban Regions in Pacific Asia

Mega-urban Regions in Pacific Asia

Author: Gavin W. Jones

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9789971693794

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Southeast Asia contains four urban conglomerates of the sort that this study characterizes as Mega-Urban Regions รข " Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh. These locations are examined in this book, along with Taipei and Shanghai. Because the administrative boundaries of the cities at the core of these zones do not include the entire urban area, the significance of the broader urban community has largely escaped scholarly attention. The authors base their analysis on actual agglomeration size rather than administrative boundaries, and draw on unpublished census data to study the dynamics of these massive urban zones, considering area and population size as well as social and demographic patterns of change in core, inner and outer zones. They conclude that these mega-urban regions continue to increase their share of national populations, and zones immediately beyond the official metropolitan boundaries are where the most dramatic changes are occurring.


Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021

Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9789292690205

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This publication provides updated statistics on a comprehensive set of economic, financial, social, and environmental measures as well as select indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report covers the 49 regional members of ADB. It discusses trends in development progress and the challenges to achieving inclusive and sustainable economic growth across Asia and the Pacific. This 52nd edition discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the challenges of meeting development targets, which needed urgent attention even before the global health crisis began. To put into practice the "leave no one behind" principle of the SDGs, the availability of more detailed and informative data is crucial. With the pandemic intensifying society's reliance on digital platforms for remote working and learning, as well as for shopping and entertainment, the 2021 report features a special supplement, Capturing the Digital Economy: A Proposed Measurement Framework and Its Applications, which is rooted in input-output analysis and uses readily available national accounts data. The study provides a sound basis on which to assess the relative importance of the digital economy in national and global production processes.