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Asian Development Outlook 2008: Workers in Asia

dc.contributor.authorAsian Development Bank
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-11T20:09:05Z
dc.date.available2016-10-11T20:09:05Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/8899
dc.descriptionThe annual Asian Development Outlook provides a comprehensive economic analysis of 44 economies in developing Asia and the Pacific. This 20th anniversary edition examines trends and prospects in Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Developing Asia's performance in 2007 broke records in almost two decades. Aggregate gross domestic product grew at 8.7%, on supportive global economic conditions, a largely favorable policy environment, and productivity gains as the region continued its remarkable modernization and transformation. Conditions in the global economy now look distinctly unsteady with the United States, Japan, and Europe set for a synchronized slowdown this year. Still, developing Asia will not be hostage to the global slowdown, even if it cannot remain immune to it, and its growth this year and next should be only a little below longer-run trends. But with commodity prices soaring and despite government price restraints, inflation is accelerating and is likely to hit decade-long highs. Rising inflation expectations are a more immediate threat to developing Asia than the prospect of a moderate slowdown in growth. This year's theme on workers in developing Asia spotlights three issues. Will the region reap the demographic advantages of its many young people about to enter the workforce? Can it resolve its silent crisis in terms of its skills shortages? Third, with migration burgeoning within the region, will policies move to keep up with the reality on the ground?
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherAsian Development Bank (ADB)
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectpovertyen_US
dc.subjectfinanceen_US
dc.subjectfinancingen_US
dc.subjectfinancial assistanceen_US
dc.subjectfinancial managementen_US
dc.subjectinvestmenten_US
dc.subjectmonetary relationen_US
dc.subjecteconomic activityen_US
dc.subjecteconomic developmenten_US
dc.subjecteconomic planen_US
dc.subjecteconomic structureen_US
dc.subjecteconomicsen_US
dc.subjecteconomyen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental economy issueen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental developmenten_US
dc.subjectmacroeconomic goalen_US
dc.subjectmacroeconomicsen_US
dc.subjecteconomicsen_US
dc.subjectmanpoweren_US
dc.subjectlabouren_US
dc.subjectlabour marketen_US
dc.titleAsian Development Outlook 2008: Workers in Asia
dc.typeReports, Books and Booklets
dc.typeReports, Books and Bookletsen_US
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000035
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000042


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