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Ageing populations and care ecosystems: Policy complementarity, substitution and disconnect London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Faculty of Public Health and Policy seminar series
Global ageing is a phenomenon that created considerable opportunities as well as significant challenges. Longevity and increases in healthy years generate a range of societal and individual benefits. However, not all extra years of life are spent in good health.
In this seminar, Professor Shereen Hussein will provide an overview of global ageing followed by an interpretation of the care ecosystems drawing examples from high-income and low- and middle-income countries. She will mainly explore the dynamical relationship between formal and informal care spheres as two vital interactive components of an overall ecosystem.
BANGKOK: Policymakers from 50 Asian and Pacific countries on Thursday called for a whole-of-society response to COVID-19.
Indian diplomats, attending the annual session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) said that the policymakers encouraged coordinated action across the region to mitigate the economic and social devastation brought on by the pandemic.
That augurs well for India, they said, because it needs external support at the moment to tide over the crisis of the second COVID surge that has led to more than three million infections. Endorsing a resolution on the final day of ESCAP s annual session, the delegates also reaffirmed its commitment to multilateralism in response to global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The seventy-seventh session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was held virtually from 26 to 29 April 2021 under the theme, “Building back better from crises through regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific.”
This year’s session being organized virtually due to the pandemic, centered around four critical interconnected areas: broadening social protection, investing in a sustained recovery, strengthening connectivity and supply chains; and mending a broken relationship with nature, and provided analyses of the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic in countries of Asia and the Pacific set out a policy agenda for building back better grounded in regional cooperation.
The region of Latin America and the Caribbean has been the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the most harmed in economic and social terms. This is due to longstanding structural factors that have portended its dysfunctional development pattern. That is why the economic reactivation must pursue, at the same time, significant productive, fiscal and institutional structural reforms, in order to move forward on configuring a new, inclusive and sustainable development pattern.
So stated Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Mario Cimoli, Deputy Executive Secretary of that United Nations regional organization, in a joint article published in the latest edition of the