Population problems are now addressed along with other critical development issues. Accordingly, the population and development activities of the Asian and Pacific Population Programme are now integrated with activities under the thematic and technical committees of ESCAP as shown below:

Regional economic cooperation

- International migration, especially of workers

- Impact of remittances

Environment and sustainable development

- Interlinkages among population, resources, environment and sustainable development

- Environment, morbidity and health

Poverty alleviation through economic growth and social development

- Trends in fertility and family planning

- Demographic aspects of women, development and poverty

- Women's role in family planning management

- Human resources development

- Issues in reproductive health

- Rural-urban migration and employment

- Comprehensive national policies on ageing

- Morbidity and mortality

- Integrated population planning

- Family dynamics and population ageing

Statistics

- Training and technical assistance

- Demographic analysis

- Utilization of population statistics and research

Least developed, land-locked and island developing countries

- Population distribution and migration

- Training and technical assistance

- Integrated population planning

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