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Creating business opportunities for women through ICT
(United Nations, 2001-12)
<p>This publication examines the development of electronic commerce and its impact on employment opportunities particularly on women. Both developed and developing economies are in need of skilled IT specialists to cope ...
Promoting business and technology incubation for improved competitiveness of small and medium-sized industries through application of modern and efficient technologies
(United Nations, 2004)
It was emphasized that the main goal of incubation system is to promote continuous regional and national
industrial and economic growth through increasing of employment and general business development and to
stimulate ...
Implementing e-Government : reports of the Regional Workshop, Bangkok 31 May - 4 June 2004
(United Nations, 2004)
This Regional Workshop on Implementing E-government was organized to prepare the countries in the Asian and Pacific region to take up this challenge and/or assist them to improve their e-government programmes. Countries ...
United Nations in Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations, 2004)
<p>As the only intergovernmental agency covering the entire region, UNESCAP is uniquely placed to deliver the services that member governments need, and to work closely with the UN family based in Bangkok. The rapidly ...
Urban environmental governance for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific : a regional overview
(United Nations, 2005)
In the ESCAP region, the urban population is expected to reach 2.23 billion by 2020, constituting 55 per cent of the region's total projected population and making it the largest urban population in the world. As rapid ...
TC yearbook 2004 : Technical Cooperation
(United Nations, 2005)
This Technical Cooperation Yearbook reports on key achievements made by ESCAP in 2004.<br><br>
<p>It begins by outlining ESCAP’s new Technical Cooperation Strategy, which
is the overarching framework for the organization’s ...
Social development management information systems (SOMIS) : experience and lessons learned
(United Nations, 2001-12)
<p>In this study, SOMIS is defined as a public sector management information system for policy-making and social development management in public agencies. This publication describes the conceptual and operational framework ...
The future WTO agenda and developing countries : selected papers and issues discussed at the ESCAP/UNCTAD/ADB meeting of senior officials on the future WTO agenda and developing countries, Bangkok, 23-25 August 1999
(United Nations, 2000)
<p>As ESCAP member countries prepare for the next WTO Ministerial Conference, a sense of harsh reality pervades as they grapple with the worst economic downturn of the past half-century. The lessons emerging from the crisis ...
Using CEDAW at the grass roots : convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination women in the Pacific
(United Nations, 2000)
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Over the years NGOs have been recognized as significant players in the
global attempt to ensure gender equality and sustainable development. They have
played a valuable role in facilitating the promotion of ...
Contributions of multilateral and bilateral agencies toward achieving EFA goals in the Asia-Pacific region
(UNESCO PROAP, 2000)
<p>The World Declaration on Education for All was a global commitment that has been taken seriously by governments of the Asia-Pacific region. There is perhaps no need to reiterate the fact that the primary responsibility ...