Asia Pacific Human Development Report
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Anuradha Rajivan - Team Leader, C.P. Chandrasekhar - Core Team, Ramesh Gampat - Core Team, Achila Imchen - Core Team, Chune Loong Lum - Core Team. 2006. Asia Pacific Human Development Report. New York.
Asia Pacific Human Development Report
Posted on: January 01, 2006
The Report highlights that free trade can benefit the poor of Asia-Pacific if countries adopt bold new policies that harness trade and economic growth to promote people’s well-being. It also highlights the important sub-regional variations in employment performance across the region. Employment growth increased slightly in South Asia, but plummeted in East Asia, mainly because of a slowdown in employment growth in China.