Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: Post-crisis trade and investment opportunities

In Asia and the Pacific, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remain a critical source of employment creation (in many economies of Asia and the Pacific contributing 60% or more of jobs) and income generation. While SMEs enhance dynamism in economies by providing flexibility and fresh ideas, they can also stabilize societies by providing safety nets for disadvantaged workers. In this regard, the SME sector has occupied a prominent position in the development agenda of all developing economies in the region; thus, promotion of SME development has been regarded as an important policy issue in those economies.SMEs, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Regional, Global, Markets, Value chains, opportunities, apparel, garments

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: Post-crisis trade and investment opportunities

With the start of the global economic crisis, world foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows decreases by 16% in 2008, then dropped sharply by 37% in 2009 and gained a marginal 1% increase in 2010. The decrease was relatively more pronounced in the developed countries. For the first time, developing countries are expected to have absorbed more than half of global FDI flows in 2010.foreign direct, investment, FDI, economic crisis, Asia, Pacific, regional trade agreement,

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: Post-crisis trade and investment opportunities

Commercial services exports are slowly returning to their pre-crisis level, with global exports climbing by 8.3% from $3.4 trillion in 2009 to$3.7 trillion in 2010. Asia, and the Pacific, in particular developing Asia, is again leading the recovery, with a growth rate of more than 20% in 2010. This strong rise came after a slump in commercial services exports by almost 12% in 2009.Services, Trade, Trade, recovery, export, import, Asia, Pacific, international, tourism, computer, information, intraregional

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: Post-crisis trade and investment opportunities

The traditional developed economies of the Group of Three (G3)-the European Union, Japan and the United States- all face economic slowdown, and acceptance is growing that the Asia-Pacific region will be the world's next engine of economic growth. Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are rapidly increasing their importance in the world economy, having performed robustly to make a quick recovery in 2010 and reach pre-crisis levels of economic activity while major industrial countries continue to struggle.Trade, Investment, Opportunities, European Union, Japan, United States, G3, Group of three, economic, growth, import, export, Asia, Pacific

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: Post-crisis trade and investment opportunities

List of tables on trade performance indicatorsTrade performance indicator, trade share, import, export, Asia, Pacific

Peran United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees dalam Menangani Pencari Suaka Afganistan di Pekanbaru (Indonesia) Tahun 2015 ( Studi Kasus: Pencari Suaka Afganistan di Rumah Detensi Imigrasi Pekanbaru)

Study analyzes the role of the United Nations made High Commissioner for Refugees in dealing with asylum seekers Afghan in Pekanbaru-Indonesia 2015 with the focus of research that Afghan asylum seekers in immigration detention of Pekanbaru.This research method is library research and interviews. The framework used by the author is Level of Analysis used International Organization ,International Organization Theory and Theory of Roles, human security concept and perspective neoliberalis.From the analysis using the concepts and theories and perspectives, we can conclude that as an International organization under the auspices of the United Nations tasked to deal with the problem of refugees, the UNHCR exercised its powers in dealing with asylum seekers who are in immigration detention Pekanbaru by doing data collection to Rudenim though not scheduled and rated slow. After UNHCR to collect data then after that every Deteni given a registration number to the end of his interview to determine their statusnya.if declared as refugees then these people moved into camps under the supervision of Class I Immigration Office Pekanbaru and that has not been given the status the refugees must remain in Detention Centre of Pekanbaru during the process. UNHCR also helps asylum seekers / Refugees to obtain a durable solution is local integration, pengembalia voluntary and third country resettlement. However, UNHCR has not been able to carry out its role with maximum because hampered by the lack of shelter provided to asylum-finding / pegungsi and lack of operational funds

Peranan The United Nations Children\u27s Fund (Unicef) dalam Penanganan Eksploitasi Seksual Komersial Anak (Eska) di Dunia

Maharany Fitri* Dr. Chairul Bariah, S.H., M.Hum.** Arif, S.H., M.Hum.*** Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation is a basic violation to the rights of children. These violations consist of sexual abuse from adults and rewards in a form of money or object for the child, third parties, or other parties. Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation can take form in Child Prostitution, Early-age Marriage, Child Pornography, or even Child Sex Tourism. In Principle, International law already legislate a law about Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation. However, Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation is still a never ending problem. Therefore, UNICEF as an Organization who on the job for child benefit felt that it is their responsibility to help Nations all around the world fight Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation. Based on this, the formulations of the problem in this research are: What is the position of the child in International law? How is the protection system against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children? What are UNICEF\u27s roles as the International organizations in dealing with the practice of Sexual Exploitation of Children in the world? By using empirical - normative research methods, which combine normative legal approach with several empirical studies, it can be concluded that the children were in accordance with International law are those who are under 18 years old unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. Children must be protected by the government, local communities and families because they are considered weak and not aware of their rights. Article 34 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that State parties are obliged to protect the child from all forms of sexual exploitation. UNICEF as an International organization working in the field of children protection felt obliged to assist and cooperate with the countries all around the world to protect children from Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and eliminate them. To do so, UNICEF makes an accurate data about Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, giving help and rehabilitation for the victim of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, giving the community the right education so they can avoid Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, and also helping the government so they by law can handle Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children that happened in their country

Peran United Nations Human Rights Council (Unhrc) Dalam Penyelesaian Kasus Pelecehan Seksual Di Republik Afrika Tengah Tahun 2013-2016

This study illustrates the Role of the United Nations Human Rights Council in the settlement of sexual harassment cases in Central African Republic in 2013-2016. The unstable state security of the coup that took place in 2013 has put the UN Peacekeeping Force into the country to stabilize security conditions and protect civilians. In carrying out the mission, the UN Peacekeeping Force conducted sexual harassment against civilians, women and children victims. The focus of the research is sexual harassment conducted by UN peacekeepers.This research theoretically has built with pluralism perspectives on International Relations and supported by the theory of International Organization and Role theory, and also the concept of human security. Formulation of all the arguments, facts and theoretical framework in this research was guided by qualitative descriptive explanation methods. Scope of this research is The Role of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in The Settlement of Sexual Harassment Cases in Central African Republic in 2013-2016.This research also proves that UNHRC is considered quite good in carrying out its role by forming an independent panel and investigation team to solve cases Sexual harassment occurring in the Central African Republic. To resolve this issue again in the future, the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly passed resolution in 2016, namely UN Security Council resolution 2272 and General Assembly resolution 70/286