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T1 Asian Development Outlook 2008: Workers in Asia
A1 Asian Development Bank, 
K1 poverty
K1 finance
K1 financing
K1 financial assistance
K1 financial management
K1 investment
K1 monetary relation
K1 economic activity
K1 economic development
K1 economic plan
K1 economic structure
K1 economics
K1 economy
K1 environmental economy issue
K1 environmental development
K1 macroeconomic goal
K1 macroeconomics
K1 manpower
K1 labour
K1 labour market
PB Asian Development Bank
YR 2008
FD 2008
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8899
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8899
NO The 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?
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 19, 2026