APPGM SDG Working Group Report Civil Society Insights On Country Progress

APPGM SDG Working Group Report Civil Society Insights On Country Progress
Author: Dr Murallitharan M. MD MCommHSc MSc MMEd PhD FRSPH
Publisher: National Cancer Society Malaysia
Total Pages: 76
Release:
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9671102840

The APPGM SDG Working Group Report provides insights by civil society organisations on the country’s progress towards achieving the ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’ goal as part of the effort to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a voluntary review, outlining the current progress in Malaysia towards reaching different aspects of healthcare goals and includes recommendations for improvement.

The Sustainability Shift

The Sustainability Shift
Author: Dr Adnan A Hezri
Publisher: Areca Books
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2016-12-04
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 9675719281

The Sustainability Shift: Refashioning Malaysia’s Future discusses the specific ecological threats facing Malaysia and the intellectual as well as practical ‘shift’ required for a more sustainable future. The book explores themes of environmental degradation, climate change and imminent ecological collapse faced by humanity today. These issues demand an urgent response from individuals, industries and national governments. Yet, in most countries, national policies are still based on fragmentary thinking and unsound science. Malaysia, a resource-rich upper-middle income economy, is no exception. It will certainly make a difference globally if Malaysia – home to an important tropical rainforest with mega-diverse species richness – can make a transition to sustainability. Malaysia faces a spectrum of institutional challenges as it grapples with this transition. Instead of looking at environmental problems through a compartmentalised perspective, it is essential to understand the common root causes of an overarching unsustainability. This book shows how, by reforming its institutional hardware, software and ‘heartware’, Malaysia can nurture an inclusive, sustainable society and also benefit economically by greening its growth.

The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States

The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States
Author: Fritz Machlup
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1962
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691003566

The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States marked the beginning of the study of our postindustrial information society. Austrian-born economist Fritz Machlup had focused his research on the patent system, but he came to realize that patents were simply one part of a much bigger "knowledge economy." He then expanded the scope of his work to evaluate everything from stationery and typewriters to advertising to presidential addresses--anything that involved the activity of telling anyone anything. The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States then revealed the new and startling shape of the U.S. economy. Machlup's cool appraisal of the data showed that the knowledge industry accounted for nearly 29 percent of the U.S. gross national product, and that 43 percent of the civilian labor force consisted of knowledge transmitters or full-time knowledge receivers. Indeed, the proportion of the labor force involved in the knowledge economy increased from 11 to 32 percent between 1900 and 1959--a monumental shift. Beyond documenting this revolution, Machlup founded the wholly new field of information economics. The transformation to a knowledge economy has resonated throughout the rest of the century, especially with the rise of the Internet. As two recent observers noted, "Information goods--from movies and music to software code and stock quotes--have supplanted industrial goods as the key drivers of world markets." Continued study of this change and its effects is testament to Fritz Machlup's pioneering work.

The Future of the ASEAN Economic Integration

The Future of the ASEAN Economic Integration
Author: Kiki Verico
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137596139

Verico discusses the ASEAN economic integration from dual perspectives of time span (trade, investment and finance) and framework (bilateral, sub-regional, regional and regional plus). The work is a comprehensive study of the integration in the wake of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)’s inauguration in late 2015. Examining various economic agreement levels from the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), Bilateral Free Trade Agreement (BFTA) and the AEC to financial integration in ASEAN, Verico attempts to envisage the future of ASEAN in completing its regional economic integration from trade to investment and finance. Verico argues that, in the absence of a customs union, ASEAN must utilize the open-regionalism frameworks of the ASEAN Plus One, ASEAN Plus Three, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and others in order to shift its economic integration level in this way.

ASEAN Post-50

ASEAN Post-50
Author: Aida Idris
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811380430

The first 50 years of ASEAN integration has brought peace and prosperity to the Southeast Asian region, while the next 50 will undoubtedly be fraught with unprecedented challenges. Today ASEAN not only has to contend with its own internal challenges arising from the highly diverse political, economic and socio-cultural systems of its member countries, it also has to deal with external factors which include shifts in geostrategic balance, fraying global consensus on free trade, populism and xenophobia, climate change, digital revolutions and cybercrimes. Set against the above background, this edited collection considers some of the contemporary issues and challenges faced by ASEAN in its journey towards more cohesive and dynamic regional integration. Among the topics explored are ASEAN’s evolving partnerships with its key strategic partners including China and the United States on economic policies and strategies, educational systems and frameworks, migration and environmental threats.

Digital DNA

Digital DNA
Author: Peter F. Cowhey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190657936

Innovation in information and production technologies is generating both benefits and disruption, rapidly altering how firms and markets perform as a basic level. Digital DNA is an engaging examination of the opportunities, challenges, and ways that countries and the international community can govern developments for broad benefit.

Technology Offsets in International Defence Procurement

Technology Offsets in International Defence Procurement
Author: Kogila Balakrishnan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351257986

Technology offsets, a nonconventional international trade-financing tool, is used by governments (buyers) to obtain industrial and technological benefits from companies (sellers) as part of international procurement. Offsets deals involve billions of dollars and this practice exists in around 80 countries around the world. Though offsets is a popular practice in defence, it is increasingly gaining popularity in civil sectors. Offsets is often tainted by controversy and receives bad press. What then makes offsets popular? Governments claim that offsets delivers technology and knowledge transfer, skills in high technology sectors and employment, and offsets expands export opportunities through participation in OEM supply chains. For companies, offsets is mainly employed as a tool to obtain a competitive edge and win sales in international business. In the past, there have been mixed results of case studies on the impact of offsets successes and failures. Considering the mismanagement of globalisation, unfair trade agreements and current political and economic discontent, there is a stronger need for governments and companies to use vehicles such as offsets to create a relationship of trust and commitment for sustainable development. This book fills the gap in offsets and focuses on how to manage offsets more effectively by addressing issues of strategy, policy and implementation, technology management, governance and risk. Technology Offsets in International Defence Procurement is designed for those studying international procurement, international trade, international business, technology management, defence policy and industrial policy. This book will also be of interest to practitioners and policy makers in both government and industry.