The Workforce We Need: Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific

The Workforce We Need: Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific The Workforce We Need Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific The shaded areas of the map indicate ESCAP members and associate members.* The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is the most inclusive intergovernmental platform in the Asia-Pacific region. [...] Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP ii Acknowledgements The publication was prepared by the Social Development Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) under the overall direction and guidance of Ms. [...] Finally, the team expresses its gratitude to the staff of the Communications and Knowledge Management Section and the Office of the Executive Secretary for their support in the dissemination of the report. [...] Broadening property and wealth, is essential for preventing an the tax base and improving the composition of tax excessive concentration of wealth and power in the revenue is needed for a sustainable financial position hands of a few, and for ensuring greater equality of of economies across the region. [...] The workforce is Eight of the ten most disaster-prone countries in vulnerable to megatrends the world are found in Asia and the Pacific.15 In the absence of comprehensive adaptation and mitigation measures, the region is more exposed Still grappling with poverty and vulnerabilities to physical climate risk than any other part of exacerbated by the pandemic, the region’s workforce the world.16 ESCA.