This series is a unique primer for students and educators interested in how people around the world experience everyday life. Highlighting the issues of shelter and resources, nutrition and health, education and economic opportunity, and political rights, this first-of-a-kind series incorporates new measures of prosperity, particularly the Social Progress Index of the Social Progress Imperative. While introducing young readers to the pressing concerns of life and sustainable development in every region of the world, the series includes social studies topics and pertinent coverage of core history.

Foreword: social progress around the globe / by Michael Green -- Introduction: social progress in East Asia and the Pacific -- Basic human needs -- Foundations of well-being -- Opportunity -- East Asian and Pacific countries at a glance -- Conclusion -- Glossary.