The Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal (APSDJ) is published twice a year by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). It is the continuation of ESCAP’s Asia Pacific Development Journal (APDJ) with an explicit recognition of sustainable development in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Editorial
Asia-Pacific Social Outlook 2022: strategies for building a healthy, protected and productive workforce in Asia and the Pacific
ESCAP secretariat
Special theme: from Labs to Jabs: ensuring access and equity in Covid-19 vaccination
Solidarity as a practical craft: cohesion and cooperation in leveraging access to medical technologies within and beyond the TRIPS Agreement
Antony Taubman
Trade measures on pharmaceutical products: can they promote local production and public health?
Padmashree Gehl Sampath
Trade in vaccines and related inputs: a study of the Asia-Pacific region
Pralok Gupta and Ayona Bhattacharjee
Strengthening the health system to address inequalities in COVID-19 vaccine access in the Asia-Pacific Region
Valerie Gilbert Ulep and Beverly Lorraine Ho
Financing research and development for new vaccines in developing Asia-Pacific countries
Gavin Yamey, Kaci Kennedy McDade, Wenhui Mao and Ekene Osakwe
Invited paper
Can Asia assure social insurance for all its informal workers?
Santosh Mehrotra
Policymakers' corner
Cooperating to overcome access inequities for COVID-19 and beyond
Mariângela Simão, Allison Colbert, Christophe Rerat and Deirdre Dimancesco
Ensuring supply chain connectivity and resiliency in the post-pandemic recovery: the case of ASEAN
Satvinder Singh
Book reviews
The World Trade Organization needs to prepare better for future pandemics
Xiankun Lu
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia (eds. Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat)
Zulfan Tadjoeddin
Obituary
Professor Clement Allan Tisdell (1939-2022): a tribute
Mohammad Alauddin