Nuclear Energy Handbook
UNESCAP: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
external URL: http://www.unescap.org/
| 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. |
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| URL: | http://www.unescap.org/
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| language: | English
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| originator: | United Nations
| Thailand
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| access: | open to the general public
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| type of data: | textual information
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| type of site: | non-commercial site
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| subject category: | non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations
| international organizations
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| INIS/ETDE category: | general and miscellaneous
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