Selv om de asiatiske landes økonomier tordner derudaf, er der stadig problemer på en række områder.
Bla. skaber den økonomiske fremgang større ulighed, ungdomsarbejdsløshed florerer, og afmatning i Vesten rammer de eksportorienterede økonomier i Asien.
Donorlandene må fortsat støtte udviklingsarbejde i regionen, mener Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Many consider the Asia region a quintessential (typisk) economic success story, writes D+C, a magazine published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
Indeed, per capita income in the region increased almost three-fold from 1990 to 2008.
The quality of life has improved for a substantial share of the world’s population.
A recent study published by the Asian Development Bank (Wan and Sebastian 2011) shows that the number of people living in extreme poverty in Asia was almost halved from 1.42 billion in 1990 to 754 million in 2008. The region is also making progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets that measure poverty against other yardsticks – such as access to clean water, gender parity in education and child mortality.
Nonetheless, donor nations must not yet turn away from the Asia-Pacific region.
It still is home to two thirds of the world’s poor and its path to prosperity remains precarious.
Many Asian countries are likely to miss even the MDG target relating to hunger.
