<p>The Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network is the first treaty to have been developed under the auspices of the UNESCAP secretariat and deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. It ...

<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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

<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 ...

<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 ...

<p>This publication consists of an overall synthesis study presented in Part One and six country studies presented in Part Two. The studies were undertaken within the framework of a project generously funded by the Government ...

<p>The publication examines the implications of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) for developing countries of the ESCAP region and considers alternative scenarios as countries prepare for further multilateral ...

<p>Youth crime and delinquency should not be treated as an isolated problem to be dealt with in an ad hoc and fragmentary manner. Rather, it should be approached as a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon requiring systematic ...

This publication focuses on export competitiveness policy for sustained economic growth and recovery in the ESCAP region and reviews recent economic and trade developments. The impact of regionalism, multilateralism and ...