Population strategies for the 1990s

A note by the ESCAP secretariat to the forty-seventh session of the Commission, which will be held at Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 1 to 10 April 1991, reviews a variety of topics related to population. These include a survey of the population situation in the region, including policies and programmes; the state of socio-economic development in the region and development issues closely linked with population, such as the status of women, quality of population, environment, poverty and rural-urban migration. It also considers various multidisciplinary strategies and programmes of the secretariat such as cross- disciplinary training, multidisciplinary research, technical advisory services and population information.