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While there have been notable advances in girls’ education and health, women across the
region
remain subject to traditional attitudes that define their primary role as being in the home.
But there are five areas in the Asia-Pacific
region
where governments, companies, and non-governmental organizations could start to make meaningful progress.
Globally, the value of women’s unpaid work performed is three times higher than that of men, whereas in the Asia-Pacific region, it is four times higher.
Globally, there are fewer than 40 women for every 100 men in leadership positions (including in politics), and in the Asia-Pacific region, that figure falls to around 25.Though the share of women sitting on company boards across the
region
did double between 2011 and 2016, from 6% to 13%, it remains far too small.
But, most critically, too few companies in the
region
offer flexible working options.
In Asia’s booming Internet market, digital technologies could be a double-edged sword: If the gender gap is not closed, women will be left on the sidelines of the technology-driven revolution sweeping the
region.
Across the Asia-Pacific region, 44% of respondents said that men make better leaders than women.
The Asia-Pacific
region
is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing and most innovative economies.
That would threaten Israel's peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, as popular anger at Israel turns against pro-American regimes in the
region.
Indeed, the current election cycle in Latin America, coupled with the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in December in Lima, Peru, provide an opportunity for the
region
to show how countries can benefit from a low-carbon economy, reduce climate risks, and build long-term prosperity.
Properly motivated, investors can boost renewable energy; invest in sustainable urban transport; encourage innovation; create jobs in cleaner technologies; raise productivity; and help shift the
region
away from its reliance on finite natural resources.
Rhetoric aside, Hamas’s opposition to direct talks with Israel is intended to make clear to the US that Hamas is central to the political reality of the
region
and cannot be ignored.
But his decision, while correct, had the effect of reviving an increasingly common refrain in the East Asian region: What happened to the “pivot”?
Conceived as a long-overdue shift in resources and attention from wars and other urgent challenges in the Middle East toward the vast expanse of opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, America’s much-vaunted strategic pivot immediately ran into a gauntlet of unintended consequences (the handmaidens of inconsistent and poorly articulated policy).
It might, however, introduce new sanctions tied to Iran’s behavior in Syria or elsewhere in the
region.
And while it is fair to argue that much of what Iran is doing in the
region
is a legitimate cause for concern, it is not grounds for reintroducing sanctions under the accord.
What is needed is a policy of containment of Iran across the
region
– including support for the Kurds in northern Iraq and Syria, as well as of other groups and countries that are pushing back against Iran.
In Afghanistan, war continued under different circumstances, with serious ramifications for the
region
and, indeed, the world.
Chile’s growth problems are among the least severe in the
region.
Consider the tourism industry, which has great potential in the beautiful Patagonia
region
of southern Argentina and Chile.
But no private firm will build a hotel in this remote, under-populated
region
if no road leads there.
But in doing so, claims the IADB, Latin American governments may have gone too far: “There is now a growing consensus among policymakers and analysts alike that by putting all industrial policy out of bounds, the
region
may have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.
There is no other way to reverse the widespread perception across the
region
that the US has imperial ambitions.
The West, in turn, was unanimous in condemning Russia’s subsequent annexation of Crimea and clandestine military support for a pro-Russian separatist uprising in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas
region.
With private-equity activity having declined in the Middle East and indeed elsewhere in recent years, owing to the fallout from the Abraaj Capital saga, SOEs and SWFs in the
region
will likely continue to establish their own private equity vehicles.
Twenty years ago, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources classified the Niger Delta as a
region
of high biodiversity of marine and coastal flora and fauna – tree species, fish, birds, and mammals, among other forms of life – and therefore rated it as a very high priority for conservation.
But many Europeans’ sunny view of the
region
has yielded to lowering clouds of pessimism.
In Eastern Europe, with the withdrawal and eventual disappearance of the Soviet hegemon, the floodgates were opened, and a torrent of change washed over the
region.
Chinese and US interests in Afghanistan are unlikely ever to be perfectly aligned, but the two sides can and must learn to cooperate for their own benefit, and that of the
region.
There is only one way forward for Turkey, Armenia, and the
region.
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