PREFACE
The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific and the United Nations Population Fund
organized the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference
at Bangkok from 11 to 17 December 2002. The main theme
of the Conference was “Population and poverty
in Asia and the Pacific”. The Conference discussed
the interlinkages between population, development
and poverty and emerging issues challenging the ESCAP
region.
With a view to providing information on various issues
relating to population, both persistent and emerging,
to representatives attending the Conference, background
papers were prepared by various experts in the field.
This report contains background papers on selected
issues of population and development. It is hoped
that the papers in this volume will be useful to planners,
policy makers
and researchers.
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