Note No. 5659

                                                      28 March 2001

Note to Correspondents

2001 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SURVEY OF ASIA AND PACIFIC

TO BE PRESENTED AT HEADQUARTERS 3 APRIL

The “Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 2001” will be launched at a Headquarters briefing, at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, 3 April.

The Survey is the flagship publication of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and is launched as a prelude to the upcoming ministerial-level, fifty-seventh session of the Commission, to be held in Bangkok from 19 to 25 April.  The Survey also serves as a background document for the substantive session of the Economic and Social Council. 

The 2001 Survey provides valuable and timely analysis and information on the principal policy challenges facing the Asia and Pacific region, in addition to an analytical review of the impressive recovery experienced by that region during 1999 and 2000.  It consists of two parts. 

Part l reviews the recent economic and social developments, including trade, commodities and capital flows and their contributions to the process of economic recovery in the region.  It also examines the implications of demographic dynamics in terms of poverty, environment, the labour force and employment, education, health and domestic savings.  Part 2 of the Survey discusses the subject of financing for development from the perspective of the ESCAP region.   It examines the trends and patterns of:  domestic resource mobilization; external private resources; official flows; and international systemic issues.  

Bagher Asadi, of Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, will present the Survey.  Kamal Kharrazi, Foreign Minister of Iran, is the current Chairman of the Ministerial-level Commission of ESCAP.  

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