Sustainable Investing in Asia: Uncovering Opportunities and Risks

Falko Paetzold

Chapter 15 in Responsible Management in Asia, 2011, pp 256-276 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Economically, emerging Asia1 is a success story, where superlatives and strong growth are common. To expand the network of highways and railways, USD50 billion was spent in 2009 alone. Fuelled by fundamentally strong economic growth and ample savings, demand for all kinds of goods will continue to explode in the region, where currently only 50 out of 1,000 citizens can afford a car. However, the same is true of the severe negative environmental, social and governance (ESG) effects that accompany such rapid growth. Emerging Asia’s economic rise feeds off the inherently unsustainable system pioneered by the West since industrialization — extensive, fossil fuel-based resource consumption. This can hardly continue. Extensive resource consumption combined with modern technology and globalization accumulates huge environmental and social costs and, unlike at the time of the West’s industrialization, humanity today far exceeds this planet’s capacity to absorb these costs. Furthermore, emerging Asia is vulnerable to closely related issues, such as climate change, due to its geographic location, demographics, and status of pollution.

Keywords: Civil Society; Child Labour; Civil Society Activity; Sustainable Investment; International Finance Corporation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230306806_16

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