The support meeting for the economic statistics project funded by DFID was organized by the ESCAP Statistics Division on 30 November 2016. The Workshop on Statistical Business Registers was organized by ESCAP in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank on 1-2 December 2016.
Both meetings were attended by project focal points and experts on statistical business registers or business statistics from national statistical offices of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam. Resource persons from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the UK Department for International Development also participated.