The COVID-19 pandemic is imposing economic and broader development challenges as never before. Policy lessons from Asia … inequality and environmental challenges increased the region's vulnerabilities. The post-pandemic recovery in Asia and the … Pacific should place the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the center. In addition to using the traditional …

Inequality is bad per se and has adverse effects, among other things, on economic development and the environment. It … definitions of social cohesion incorporate inequality, thus making it impossible to examine how these two phenomena interact with … one another. This paper analyses both theoretically and empirically, the relationship between inequality and social …

overcome these challenges and play a more active role in economic development through policy measures such as industrial policy …

innovation is increasingly pivotal to future industrial development. Actively engaging societal groups in the policymaking … should lead to the realization of a more prosperous and equitable industrial development, with the "re-industrialization" of …

documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed …, extending their economic results to include different measures of inequality as outcomes. …

theoretical concepts on which the study of trust, the well-being of citizens, the assessment of security and compliance with the … state where people not only trust specific institutions, but also enjoy a sense of security from threats and the ability to … of the security of the inhabitants of the region, associated with an increase in the level of their well-being, are …