ESCWA adopted the issue of follow-up to global conferences, including the Summit, as the theme of the first meeting of its Committee on Social Development, Amman, March 1997. ESCWA also organized a regional follow-up to the Summit at Beirut in December 1998 with the League of Arab States. ESCWA’s analytical work on the Summit has focused on: social impact of globalization on the labour market and employment as well as on tools for alleviating poverty; the social and environmental impact of urbanization; the social and demographic impact of international migration; gender roles and partnership on the family, including governance and civil society.

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