Bridging the Development Gap : ASEAN Equitable Development Monitor 2014
Since the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 1990s and through the Global Financial Crisis of the last decade, commendable progress has been made by the member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in improving economic and...
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Format: | Report |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/24365130/bridging-development-gap-asean-equitable-development-monitor-2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21749 |
Summary: | Since the Asian Financial Crisis in the
late 1990s and through the Global Financial Crisis of the
last decade, commendable progress has been made by the
member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations
(ASEAN) in improving economic and human development outcomes
both within each country and across countries. Since 1997,
the economies of the poorest countries in the ASEAN,
Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam, have generally grown
faster than the richer economies, which has reduced gaps in
per capita incomes. Overall, child mortality rates have been
cut by two-thirds across the ASEAN. And significant
reductions have occurred even in some of the poorer member
countries such as Cambodia and Lao PDR. However, this
report The ASEAN Equitable Development Monitor (henceforth
referred to as The Monitor), also shows that much remains to
be done to ensure that the poorest members of the ASEAN
community, within countries and across countries, are not
left behind as the countries of the ASEAN integrate further.
In both policies and development outcomes, differences
across the countries of the ASEAN remain large. In this
context, the monitor is designed to facilitate further
discussion on policies and programs that can promote
inclusive growth within ASEAN member countries and across
the ASEAN community. It presents a number of indicators that
are intended to provide a summary of development outcomes
across and within the ten ASEAN countries and over time. On
this basis, the monitor is intended to help policymakers in
ASEAN member states to identify areas of concerns and
prioritize national and regional interventions. The monitor
tracks indicators across two broad sets of development
outcomes and policies: (i) economic development; and (ii)
human development. |
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