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UNESCAP: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Established in 1947 in Shanghai, China, as the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) to assist in post-war economic reconstruction, the Commission moved its headquarters to Bangkok in January 1949. The name was changed in 1974 to reflect both the economic and social aspects of development and the geographic location of its member countries. UNESCAP's mandate was broadened in 1977 by the General Assembly. The regional commissions have since then been the main UN economic and social development centres within the five different regions. UNESCAP's activities are more and more concentrated on spreading the growth momentum from its more dynamic member countries to the rest of the region. The ultimate challenge lies in bringing some 830 million of the region's poor into the economic mainstream, enabling everybody to achieve a better standard of life as envisaged in the Charter of the United Nations.


	URL:	http://www.unescap.org/
	language:	English
	originator:	United Nations \| Thailand
	access:	open to the general public
	type of data:	textual information
	type of site:	non-commercial site

	subject category:	non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations \| international organizations
	INIS/ETDE category:	general and miscellaneous