Population and human resources

One of the notes prepared by the secretariat for consideration at the forty-second session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) focuses on a variety of issues related to population and human resources. Among these are human resources for population and family planning programmes, and the role of ESCAP in developing human resources for such purposes. The aim of the paper is to discuss the types of investments in human resources that are likely to contribute to a continued decline in fertility in the Asian and Pacific region.