Online Journal Mundo Asia Pacifico

Promoting a Healthy, Protected, and Productive Workforce; and Addressing the Expanded Riskscape in Asia and the Pacific

Miguel Pimiento Restrepo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

This position paper, drafted by Nepal's delegate to the National Model United Nations 2024 (NMUN), which received the Outstanding Position Paper Award, presented at the closing ceremony at the United Nations headquarters directly addresses two of Nepal’s main objectives: promoting a healthy, protected, and productive workforce and addressing the expanding risk landscape in Asia-Pacific. It advocates coordinated policies for formalizing employment, strengthening occupational safety, and achieving universal health coverage. Recommendations include targeted skills training, incentives for formalization, improved early warning systems, and integration of disaster risk reduction into national development planning. The paper also draws lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean to enrich the analysis and promote collaborative, sustainable resilience strategies.

ICT Development and Deforestation in Asia-Pacific Region: An Empirical Analysis

ayesha, Dr. Bilal Mehmood — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have spread throughout the world and are affecting almost every aspect of life. This research examines the effect of ICT adoption levels on deforestation rates in 26 countries of Asia and the Pacific. Independent variables include four ICT determinants and three control variables: population growth, agricultural land expansion and GDP per capita. The Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimates confirm a strong positive relation between ICT index and deforestation in the region. Population growth, GDP per capita and agricultural area expansion are found to contribute positively towards deforestation. On basis of empirical findings, this study suggests that policies emphasizing integration of ICT diffusion and its application in forestry sector will lead to goals of sustainable forestry and reforestation efforts’ success.

Growth and Participation of South Korea’s Trade with Northeast and Southeast Economies

Ángel Licona Michel — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

South Korea presents sustained growth in trade with the economies of Northeast and Southeast Asia. It is part of the twenty largest economies in the world and one of the nations with the highest levels of exports and imports. The largest flows occur with the People's Republic of China (China), Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with these last two, it has signed Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In this context, the objective of of this research is to analyze the growth and participation of South Korea's trade with the economies of Northeast and Southeast Asia between 1980 and 2022. To this end, a documentary analysis was conducted, which allowed for recovery of selective information from diverse sources to explain the relevance of exports and imports with both regions.

Asia in Multilateral Global Governance

Pío García — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

This article contributes to the discussion on the role of regions in global governance. It is justified by the need to orient international system toward governance exercised by multilateral political institutions, still displaced by corporate economic dominance. The chosen methodology uses representative Asian organizations to conduct a holistic examination of 14 subsystems, which allows for determining how they incorporate multilateral values and guidelines and subsequently identifying potential contributions to a more democratic international order. It confirms that multilateral support for Asian decolonization process contributed to the region's extensive and sustained commitment to the United Nations, the highest universal political institution, and, as a reverse effect, the growing participation of Asian cooperation and integration organizations in multilateral political governance is foreseeable.

Development of Chinese Cell Phone Brands in the Pacific Alliance Countries

Otto Regalado-Pezua, Miguel Montoya, Jorge Alcaraz, Gabriel A. Zapata — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

This exploratory research paper describes how Chinese mobile phone brands have developed in the countries that make up the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). The methodology used to gather information was mainly secondary sources, drawing on academic works, articles, reports, and sector studies. The research is structured in three parts: the first part is an introductory section that presents the evolution of Chinese brands and their need to enter foreign markets. The second part presents demographic and economic data on the four countries studied and the penetration of Chinese investment in the telecommunications industry. Finally, the third part develops case studies on the modes of entry (organic, inorganic, and born global) adopted by Chinese mobile phone brands. The research concludes by pointing out that Chinese telecommunications companies, and technology companies in general, have followed different development strategies to enter the countries that make up the Pacific Alliance, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. Some of these companies have diversified their product offerings to gain market share and compete with other brands in the markets they are prospecting. To this end, they have considered the following key factors: search for and development of new markets, political and regulatory factors, investment and technological innovation, local distribution networks, use of digital media, development of differentiating products, and competitive pricing.