ESCAP News
- 27 Mar 2008
Thailand's economy is forecast to remain steady in 2008 with a growth rate of 4.9 per cent, virtually unchanged from the previous year and below the average rate of 5.8 per cent for the South-East Asian region, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
- 27 Mar 2008
Ms. Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific met this morning with the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh.
- 26 Mar 2008
Speaking in New Delhi, Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), said that considerable progress had been achieved by India on many fronts, but much more needed to be done if India was to achieve the Millennium Development Goals*. Dr. Heyzer was a special guest speaker at a roundtable, entitled “Taking India to the level” and organized by The Economist. Among the speakers were several senior government ministers and around a dozen business leaders from India and abroad.
- 21 Mar 2008
- How is the neglect of agriculture condemning 600 million people to poverty?
- What is the impact of the US subprime crisis on Asia and the Pacific?
- Which Asian economies will be hit hardest by the subprime crisis?
- What defensive actions can they take?
- Why has global financial power shifted to Asia?
- How are biofuels affecting record food prices in Asia? - 19 Mar 2008
Embargoed until 00:01 Bangkok time, 20 Thursday 2008
- 19 Mar 2008
Thirty-three government officials from 27 African, Latin American and Asia-Pacific countries, recently completed a six-month statistics course. The course was conducted by the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), part of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in Chiba Japan.
- 14 Mar 2008
Event highlights the International Year of Sanitation 2008
- 14 Mar 2008
The heads of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and leaders and senior ministers from selected Pacific island states met with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Noumea, New Caledonia, on 12 and 13 March, 2008.
- 11 Mar 2008
The Asia-Pacific region is currently home to thousands of telecentres, which provide many communities with their first chance to go online or learn about computer basics. These centres help to improve the lives of many, for instance, by enabling farmers and rural entrepreneurs learn about market trends, business opportunities, and how to market their products.
- 10 Mar 2008
With a total population of about 34 million and very diverse levels of fertility – from 1.2 children per woman in the Northern Mariana Islands to 4.6 in Samoa – the Pacific sub-region needs to redouble its efforts to tackle crucial issues such as maternal mortality, low contraceptive prevalence rate and teenage fertility in the pursuit of its Millennium Development Goals (MDG), according to an article published in the latest issue of the Asia-Pacific Population Journal.