Selsah Pasali is a social affairs officer at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Selim Raihan is a professor in the Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and Executive Director of the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM).
In the coming decades, the Asia-Pacific region faces a series of challenges that threaten to exacerbate poverty. Among these, climate change, demographic shifts -- particularly aging populations -- and the rise of digital technologies stand out as three interconnected global megatrends.
