Introduction: Why forward-looking macroeconomic policies for inclusive and sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific?

The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2013 comes at a time of continued global economic crisis and growing uncertainty over the economy, the environment and the type of politics or governance arrangements that can lead to equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. In less than a decade after the global community mobilized around the Millennium Declaration with commitments to “make poverty history”, the world was shaken by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, which has come to be known as the Great Recession.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development