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

 
9781009224321: The Great Upheaval: Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific’
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1009224328 ISBN 13: 9781009224321
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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

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About the Authors

Swarnim Waglé is the chief economic advisor at the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in New York. Waglé also chairs the Institute for Integrated Development Studies, a South Asian think-tank. Previously, he served as a member and vice-chair of the National Planning Commission of Nepal (for three intermittent years between 2014 and 2018) and as a senior economist at The World Bank in Washington, D.C. and UNDP in Hanoi, Colombo and New York.

Kanni Wignaraja is the United Nations assistant secretary-general and director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. Previously the director of the United Nations Development Operations Coordination Office, Wignaraja has worked for the UN for over 25 years in the United States and the Asia-Pacific and Africa Regions, including as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Zambia. Wignaraja has published articles on human rights, development policy, leadership and sustainability.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009224328
ISBN 13 
9781009224321
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
426
Editor
Waglé Swarnim, Wignaraja Kanni