<p>Urbanization is on the rise in most developing countries of the Economic and Social Commission forAsia and the Pacific (ESCAP) region, supported by both migration from rural to urban areas and natural population growth. ...

<p>The publication focuses on the implications of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) of the Uruguay Round Agreements on Agriculture for major agricultural commodity countries of the ESCAP region. It examines ...

<p>The family thus &ldquo;reflects the influence of economic and social transformations as well as the immediate impacts of specific watershed events in history&rdquo; (Dai Keijing 1990:174). For Asian and Pacific countries ...

<p>Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) which addresses a selected theme of current interest to analysts, policy makers and planners in the energy sector.</p> <p>This publication, No. 36 in the series, takes up the ...

<p>The State of Urbanization in Asia and the Pacific was prepared by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to serve as a basis for the discussions at the Ministerial Conference ...

The current status and future prospects of pesticides and chemical fertilizers utilization and its impacts on the environment and poverty alleviation in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Lao People's ...

<p>The Asian and Pacific region is one ofthe most promising economic zones ofthe world. It has attained unprecedented and sustained growth in the past and is expected to continue its remarkable performance in the coming ...

<p>This report examines governance aspects in relation to food, water, and energy security in three nexus partner cities: Ulaanbaatar, Da Nang, and Korat. The study produces city-specific profiles that serve to develop ...

<p>An urgent shift towards waste-to-resource approaches is required in order to address the rapidly growing quantities of waste being generated in cities in developing countries. Typically, the organic fraction of solid ...

<p>The present publication is the third of the country survey documents in the Flood Control Series, and covers British Borneo, the Federation of Malaya, Indonesia and Thailand. The problems encountered by these four ...