COMPETITION

 

The competition will be conducted in English and opened for undergraduate students from all Asian countries and universities from other countries interested in taking part in the competition. Participants of the competition are teams consisting of two persons. Each team can only submit one essay to the Committee. The topic of the essay must be in accordance with one of the four subthemes that the Committee provides. 

1. Addressing Underdeveloped Infrastructure

Regional Infrastructure Development: Encouraging Intra-Regional Trade

Participants are challenged to create comprehensive solutions to help emerging economies developing their infrastructures, be it soft or hard infrastructure.

2. Addressing Shortfall of Technological Advantages in Emerging Markets

Technological Innovation: Maintaining Growth in the Fast-Changing World

Participants are challenged to devise a concrete, practical master plan that may generally apply to Asian countries in order to provide technological innovations that can induce production efficiency and the elaboration of the desired impacts of such technology to national productivity and economy as a whole.

3. Addressing Demographic Challenges in Asia

Managing Asia’s Human Resources: Harnessing Potentials of Asia’s Human Capital

Participants are challenged to design comprehensive public policies in managing population growth and human development that are able to sustain economic growth and increase demographic quality.

4. Addressing Diversity Challenges in Asia

Reinforcing Intra-Regional Investments through Regional Cooperation: Toward More Equitable Development

Participants are challenged to provide an analysis and a fresh idea of how the regional cooperation along with all its features may improve intra-regional investment between Asian countries and how does this intra-regional investment results in a more equitable development of Asian countries.

*For more details about the subthemes, You can download the Executive Summary in the Tab Download or simply you can just click here