Sustainable Development Goals and Pandemic Planning: Role of Efficiency Based Regional Approaches [Hardcover]

This book assesses the progress in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ASEAN, India and China using the above framework conditions in the context with three main propositions. First, translating the SDGs into regional economic integration strategies during the pandemic recovery can enhance the link between global objectives and the multifaceted reality of an ASEAN community building process, and providing a strategic option to strengthen the regional approaches. Secondly, a regional approach on complementarities to SDGs can facilitate the definition of relevant targets/indicators and enhance the monitoring and evaluation framework. In so doing it could also offer the scope to integrate more closely ASEAN communitys social and environmental concerns into existing economic, social and political frameworks. Thirdly, focusing just on the geo-economic sphere  the area where south east and East Asian economic integration is relatively more advanced  will prove the hypothesis that effective regional integration through mega trade agreements such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) can support the Asias transformation agenda and foster more inclusive and sustainable growth.

Introduction.- Part I. Country Implementation of SDGs: Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets.- 1. The impact of Global COVID-19 Crisis on SDGs achievement in ASEAN-countries.- 2. Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in China and East Asia Imperatives.- 3. Measuring the distance to 2030 SDG Targets in India and South Asia Imperatives.- 4. Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in Indonesia.- 5. Measuring Distance to SDGs Target in Five Complementarity Areas: Malaysia.- 6. Measuring the Distance to 2030 targets and the Impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar.- 7. Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets: Can the Philippines achieve the SDGs?.- 8. Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in Tl3†