Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal

2018 - 2024

Continuation of Asia-Pacific Development Journal.

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Volume 31, issue 2, 2024

ASIA-PACIFIC LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES, EMERGING TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES pp. 1-25

Nyingtob Norbu and Yusuke Tateno

PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN LDCS: A NOTE FROM THE GUEST EDITOR pp. 27-29

Debapriya Bhattacharya

STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF LDCS: PAST PERFORMANCE AND FUTURE CHALLENGES pp. 31-59

Rolf Traeger

THE NEED FOR A NEW APPROACH TO TRADE AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN LDCS pp. 61-90

Daniel Gay

SERVICES EXPORTS AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN ASIA-PACIFIC LDCS: STUBBORN CHALLENGES, NEW OPPORTUNITIES pp. 91-124

Neil Balchin, Salamat Ali and Kyle de Klerk

NAVIGATING NEW GREENING TRADE MEASURES AND AVOIDING A “GREEN SQUEEZE”: IMPLICATIONS FOR LDCS pp. 125-139

Jodie Keane

DATA AVAILABILITY AND CHALLENGES TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN BANGLADESH pp. 161-179

Mohammad Mainul Islam and Muhammad Saifullah Akib

MACROFINANCIAL RISK INDICATORS FOR SMALL DEVELOPING STATES: A CASE STUDY OF STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENT IN FIJI pp. 181-204

Devendra Kumar Jain, Rup Singh, Henali Kumar and Avanish Shukla

MANAGING THE TIDAL WAVE OF DIABETES: BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE DISEASE IN FIJI pp. 205-224

Akisi Ravono, Jenny Carryer, Rochelle Stewart-Withers and Tracie Mafile'o

EVALUATING FARMERS’ INSIGHTS INTO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AND THEIR OVERDOSE: EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH pp. 225-256

Md. Toriqul Islam, Noor E Sabiha, Zeenatul Islam, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker and Ruhul Salim

IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL OWNERSHIP HETEROGENEITY ON SUSTAINABILITY SPENDING OF PORTFOLIO FIRMS: THE MODERATING ROLE OF CREDIT RATING pp. 257-281

Amit B Chakrabarti & and Kaveri Krishnan

Volume 31, issue 1, 2024

PACIFIC PREVIEW: CURRENT TRENDS AND TRAJECTORIES pp. 1-20

Sudip Ranjan Basu

URBANIZATION, CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PACIFIC SMALL ISLAND STATES: THE ROLE OF REGIONAL COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION pp. 23-45

Manoranjan Mohanty

READINESS STOCKTAKING OF MULTI-HAZARD EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS IN PACIFIC SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES pp. 47-75

Lalit Kumar Dashora, Senaka Basnayake, G. A. Chinthaka Ganepola and Susantha Jayasinghe

A REVIEW ON THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON COCOA PRODUCTION IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS pp. 77-93

Rupantri Nandika Raju

RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN PACIFIC ISLAND ECONOMIES pp. 95-116

Keshmeer Makun, Janesh Sami and Ronal Chand

A DELICATE BALANCING ACT FOR AID EFFECTIVENESS IN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES: PERFORMANCE-BASED SELECTIVITY OR VULNERABILITY-BASED ALLOCATION? COUNTRIES pp. 143-170

Fabrice Nguegang

POST-COVID-19 SOCIOECONOMIC RECOVERY IN FIJI: A NARRATIVE WITH LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE pp. 173-185

Henali Kumar, Anjani Mala, Tagimoucia Yavalanavanua, Pretika Chand, Rup Singh and Kamal Chand

EDUCATION, CHILD HEALTH, AND MINING: EVIDENCE FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA pp. 187-207

Pauline Khoo, Rajesh Ramachandran and Kaveendra Vasuthevan

ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN THE MATERNAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG SLUMS: EVIDENCE FROM HLAING THAR YAR TOWNSHIP IN MYANMAR pp. 209-235

Mya Thandar, Hlaing Hlaing Moe and Aung Kyaw Htoon

UPGRADING MONGOLIA’S CAMEL WOOL INDUSTRY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES pp. 237-256

Linda Tjia Yin-nor and Guanie Lim

Volume 30, issue 2, 2023

OVERCOMING THE CONSTRAINTS OF LANDLOCKEDNESS THROUGH SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIVITY IN NORTH AND CENTRAL ASIA pp. 1-18

Secretariat Escap

COMPARING REGIONAL INTEGRATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ASEAN AND CAREC ECONOMIES pp. 21-61

Falendra Kumar Sudan

REGIONAL COOPERATION IN PROMOTING LOWCARBON ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN THE CAREC REGION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES pp. 63-88

Bulganmurun Tsevegjav

ASSESSING PARTICIPATION OF CENTRAL ASIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS COUNTRIES IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL VALUE CHAINS pp. 89-119

Yaroslava Babych, Davit Keshelava and Giorgi Mzhavanadze

EXPLAINING TRADE POLICY EFFECTS FOR THE CENTRAL ASIA REGIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION COUNTRIES pp. 121-145

Junaid Ahmed and Amjad Masood

MAPPING ECONOMIC CLUSTERS USING SATELLITE IMAGERY TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF TRANSPORT CORRIDORS IN CAREC COUNTRIES pp. 147-175

Syed M Hasan

HAS COVID-19 HAD ANY IMPACT ON OUTWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FROM CHINA TO THE ASEAN AND CAREC REGIONS? pp. 177-198

Nam Foo, Hooi Hooi Lean and Ruhul Salim

DEVELOPMENT OF THE CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS SYSTEM IN NEPAL: MAKING PROGRESS WITH CIVIL REGISTRATION, BUT LACKING WITH VITAL STATISTICS pp. 199-225

Timothy Adair and Surender Pandey

UNDERSTANDING TRADE EFFICIENCY IN CENTRAL ASIA REGIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION COUNTRIES AND ITS DETERMINANTS pp. 227-253

Binyang Yan and Yue Wang

POVERTY ALLEVIATION STRATEGIES IN CHINA: EVOLUTION FROM AN AREA-BASED TO TARGETED STRATEGY pp. 255-265

Liang Xiaomin and Zhang Jin

Volume 30, issue 1, 2023

ACCELERATING CLIMATE ACTION IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pp. 1-17

Secretariat Escap

ANALYSIS OF THE 2030 EMISSIONS REDUCTION TARGETS OF THE PREVIOUS AND CURRENT NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS OF JAPAN, AND A COMPARISON BETWEEN COUNTRIES USING ENERGY-TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY-ECONOMIC MODELS pp. 19-41

(Corresponding author) Keigo Akimoto, Fuminori Sano, Takashi Homma, Miyuki Nagashima and Naoko Onishi

ASSESSMENT OF THE ENHANCED NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND THE STRATEGIES FOR THE 2050 NET-ZERO TARGET pp. 43-66

(Corresponding author) Tae Yong Jung, Jaewan Kim, Jongwoo Moon and Yong Gun Kim

WHAT TO FOCUS ON IN ORDER TO ACCELERATE ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY SERVICES AND ENERGY USE EFFICIENCY IN BANGLADESH pp. 89-120

(Corresponding author) Joyashree Roy and Hasan Mahmud

IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF BARRIERS TO ACCESS INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FINANCE FOR NEPAL pp. 121-148

(Corresponding author) Shobhakar Dhakal and Melissa Pradhan

ALIGNING CRITICAL MINERAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION WITH THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS pp. 151-162

Xunpeng Shi and Matthew Wittenstein

HOW SUCCESSFUL WERE THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN ATTAINING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS? AN ASSESSMENT BASED ON A SYNTHETIC APPROACH pp. 165-193

(Corresponding author) Debapriya Bhattacharya, Towfiqul Islam Khan and Mostafa Amir Sabbih

GROWTH, YIELD AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF COTTON PRODUCTION IN INDIA: PERFORMANCE AND POLICY MEASURES pp. 195-215

Anchal Arora

DEVELOPMENT OF ASIA-PACIFIC COUNTRIES: DOES BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE? pp. 217-262

Salma Ahmed

Volume 29, issue 2, 2022

ASIA-PACIFIC SOCIAL OUTLOOK 2022: STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING A HEALTHY, PROTECTED AND PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC pp. 1-17

Selahattin Selsah Pasali

SOLIDARITY AS A PRACTICAL CRAFT: COHESION AND COOPERATION IN LEVERAGING ACCESS TO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN AND BEYOND THE TRIPS AGREEMENT pp. 19-45

Antony Taubman

STRADE MEASURES ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS: CAN THEY PROMOTE LOCAL PRODUCTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH? pp. 47-69

Padmashree Gehl Sampath

TRADE IN VACCINES AND RELATED INPUTS: A STUDY OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION pp. 71-97

(Corresponding author) Pralok Gupta and Ayona Bhattacharjee

STRENGTHENING THE HEALTH SYSTEM TO ADDRESS INEQUALITIES IN COVID-19 VACCINE ACCESS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION pp. 99-123

(Corresponding author) Valerie Gilbert Ulep and Beverly Lorraine Ho

FINANCING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR NEW VACCINES IN DEVELOPING ASIA-PACIFIC COUNTRIES pp. 125-153

(Corresponding author) Gavin Yamey, Kaci Kennedy McDade, Wenhui Mao and Ekene Osakwe

CAN ASIA ASSURE SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR ALL ITS INFORMAL WORKERS? pp. 155-185

Santosh Mehrotra

COOPERATING TO OVERCOME ACCESS INEQUITIES FOR COVID-19 AND BEYOND pp. 187-194

(Corresponding author) Allison Colbert, Mariângela Simão, Christophe Rerat and Deirdre Dimancesco

ENSURING SUPPLY CHAIN CONNECTIVITY AND RESILIENCY IN THE POST-PANDEMIC RECOVERY: THE CASE OF ASEAN pp. 195-203

Satvinder Singh

Book review: THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION NEEDS TO PREPARE BETTER FOR FUTURE PANDEMICS pp. 205-208

Xiankun Lu

Book review: ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY CENTRAL ASIA pp. 209-213

Zulfan Tadjoeddin

Volume 29, issue 1, 2022

Survey: the state of sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific pp. 1-17

Secretariat Escap

A FRAMEWORK FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC pp. 17-41

Valerie Cerra

IMPACT OF TAXES AND TRANSFERS ON INEQUALITY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION pp. 43-65

Sally Torbert

CENTRAL BANKS AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION pp. 67-101

Peter Morgan

LEARNING BY DOING: CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY IN THAILAND pp. 103-117

Thammarak Moenjak

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY ON FOOD SECURITY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION pp. 119-141

A. Mukherjee, S. Saha, S. C. Lellyett and (corresponding author) A.K.S. Huda

FACTORS AFFECTING CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR IN MOBILE FINANCIAL SERVICES IN BANGLADESH pp. 143-167

(corresponding author) Afnaan Ahmed, S.M. Raihan Uddin and S.M. Rifat Hassan

CHALLENGES OF MONETARY POLICY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY pp. 169-177

Salehuddin Ahmed

MAINSTREAMING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN INDONESIA: AN EXPERIENCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT PLANNING 2016-2019 pp. 181-186

Bambang Brodjonegoro

Book review - HOW TO ACHIEVE INCLUSIVE GROWTH pp. 185-190

Prakash Loungani