The United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP), the United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
programme, and the Johns Hopkins Centre for
Civil Society Studies (JHU/CCSS), jointly organized
the Workshop to Implement the United Nations
Handbook on Non-Profit Institutions in the System
of National Accounts in Asia on 22–23
September 2005, at the United Nations Conference
Centre (UNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand.
Non-profit or civil society organizations,
philanthropy, and voluntarism have recently
attracted increased attention throughout Asia
as important potential contributors to the solution
of pressing national problems of poverty alleviation,
development, environmental protection, and social
exclusion. The new Handbook on Non-profit Institutions,
which was developed jointly by JHU/CCSS and
the United Nations Statistics Division and subsequently
accepted by the United Nations Statistical Commission,
seeks to develop a more comprehensive and explicit
economic profile of non-profit institutions
than that available under SNA 1993, which allocates
non-profit entities among several different
economic sectors based largely on their source
of revenue. A copy of the Handbook can be secured
from United Nations Publications at http://www.un.org/Pubs/catalog.htm
or downloaded from the JHU/CCSS website at the
following web address: http://www.jhu.edu/gnisp.
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