This report, Population and Development Studies and Training in Asia and the Pacific, 1985-1988 is aimed at providing an up-to-date list of current studies and training programmes in the field of population and development ...

<p>Contraceptives are being promoted among younger couples as a means of temporary family planning and a means for regulating the spacing of children. Sterilization is promoted among couples who have already had the number ...

<p>It is, of course, one thing for a nation that wants to restrain population growth to set demographic goals and quite another to achieve them. In the ESCAP region the means adopted to reach the demographic ends usually ...

<p>The implementation of family planning programmes in most of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region has significantly slowed the population growth rate in these countries and has helped them to improve the quality of ...

<p>The Policy Workshop on International Migration in Asia and the Pacific was held at Bangkok frcm 15 to 21 October 1985. It was organized by the United Nations Econcmic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) ...

The long-range objective of the project is to provide systematic information, based on research findings, about significant population-development interrelationships as a basis for the more effective integration of population ...

<p>Countries of the ESCAP region are known for their long-standing family planning programmes, which are based on national policies and government support. By the mid-1960s, strong international support proved encouraging, ...

<p>Countries of the ESCAP region are known for their long-standing family planning programmes, which are based on national policies and government support. By the mid-1960s, strong international support proved encouraging, ...

<p>In the majority of the countries in the ESCAP region with official family planning programmes, national demographic goals have been expressed as a reduction in either the crude birth rate or in the rate of natural ...

<p>At both its forty-second and forty-third sessions, convened in 1986 and 1987 respectively, the Commission deliberated upon the theme topic of human resources development. At the forty-second session, the debate focused ...