This compares to around 40% in Latin America and the Caribbean and as high as 80% in developed countries, e See chapter 3 for more details on how to strengthen countries’ economic resilience. The difference is that here the changes are applied to each Asia-Pacific economy individually rather than to all economies in the model simultaneously as in the first scenario. The prospects for Japan, therefore, in common with other economies in the region will be dependent in significant measure on the ability of the large emerging economic powerhouses in Asia and the Pacific to sustain their growth. In a sample of 13 economies with year-end 2012 employment data, 10 economies witnessed a year-on-year job growth decrease compared with 2011.