Quality of Life in the ESCAP Region

Social Policy Section
Social Development Division, United Nations ESCAP

ST/ESCAP/1462

Development policy makers and planners in all ESCAP member and associate member countries and areas would be among the first to acknowledge that the enhancement of the quality of life of the people is the basic objective of their work. This is reflected in the fact that, throughout the ESCAP region, the ultimate aim of development policies, plans and programmes for poverty alleviation, social integration and employment expansion as well as activities in support of popular participation and the realization of distributive justice is to improve the quality of life of the people.

This publication examines in narrative form the quality of life currently prevailing in the ESCAP region, with specific reference to the developing ESCAP countries. Instead of a statistical overview, the publication presents an analytical assessment of the regional situation. In the process, it identifies various quantitative and qualitative gaps in the information required to reach a considered estimation of the quality of life in the region. It examines related issues in the areas of health, education, working life, physical environment, family life, and poverty and the quality of life.

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