On March 26, 2009 Economic and Social Survey of Asia and Pacific 2009 titled with \"Addressing Triple Threats to Development\" was released in Beijing. It analyzes the three global crises which have converged to threaten development in the Asia-Pacific region: the financial crisis, fuel and food prices, and climate change. Dr. Alberto Isgut of ESCAP's Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division, expressed the fact that due pri-marily to the performance of China, as well as India, aggregate growth in Asia and the Pacific will remain higher than in other global regions, helping to make the Asia-Pacific region the locus of global growth in 2009.