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The Bulletin provides data and statistics on the countries of the Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) covering population, fertility and mortality, marriages and divorces. This issue includes...

The Bulletin provides data and statistics on the countries of the Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) covering population, fertility and mortality, marriages and divorces. This issue includes...

The Bulletin provides detailed information on the population of the Western Asia region and its vital events: births, deaths, marriages and divorces. It presents this information in three parts...

The Bulletin on Population and Vital Statistics in the ESCWA Region, issue 13, disseminates data on population, fertility, mortality, marriages and divorces from different national sources: surveys...

The Bulletin on Population and Vital Statistics in the ESCWA Region, Issue 14, disseminates data on population, fertility, mortality, marriages and divorces from different national sources: surveys...

The Bulletin on Population and Vital Statistics in the ESCWA Region, issue 15, disseminates data on population, fertility, mortality, marriages and divorces from different national sources: surveys...

The Bulletin on Population and Vital Statistics in the ESCWA Region, issue 16, disseminates data on population, fertility, mortality, marriages and divorces from different national sources: surveys...

This paper discusses why the UNECE countries have chosen rather different models of welfare state and, more generally, alternative policies to fight poverty. In particular, the paper focuses upon why...

The objective of the “Blue book” is to establish an inventory of existing and envisaged standards and parameters of E waterways and ports in Europe and to show, on an internationally comparable basis...

The Bulletin provides statistics and indicators covering fertility, mortality, marriages and divorces. Comparative study is facilitated through data which dates as far back as 1990. Most of the...

This Paper argues that the challenges posed by resource dependence can be overcome if accompanied by the right economic policies. It then analyzes what these policies are, and how to set up economic...

The continued growth of the European Union (EU) will have important economic consequences both for the EU member states and for their trading partners, especially those at the new borders of the...

This paper discusses the role of institutions in economic development. The author puts forward an argument that the considerable gap in real income per capita between richer and poorer countries...

The Mydral Lecture, delivered by Nobel laureate Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 11 February 2004 is presented in this paper. In his lecture, Prof. Stiglitz offers...

This paper addresses some aspects of the mobilization of domestic financial resources for development in the ECE emerging market economies, focusing in the interrelation between national savings...

Once a year, on the occasion of the Annual Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the ECE invites a distinguished economist to deliver the Myrdal Lecture on a major...