{"title":"\"Population\" on development agenda.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"There is no peace without development and without the eradication of poverty neither would be achieved\". This was the thread permeating the first inter-governmental consideration of the report of the UN Secretary-General on \"An Agenda for Development\" at the 1994 session of the Economic and Social Council on 28 June 1994. The meeting also agreed that pressures caused by population growth, international migration and urbanization should be given thorough consideration in the Agenda for Development. The Secretary-General thought that the time was ripe for the Agenda for Development to appear. The very concept of development had changed, he said; the concept needed to be expanded. \"I am firmly convinced that the fiftieth anniversary of the UN must be, for us, the opportunity to rethink and to reinvent our economic and social development policy\", he said.</p>","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 233","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myanmar drafts population policy.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Government of the Union of Myanmar has drafted a population policy and will strive to achieve the goal of optimum population in the future, according to the Minister for Health, H.E. Vice-Admiral Than Nyunt, who made the statement on the occasion of World Population Day (11 July). The Minister said that, although population growth was not a problem, a birth-spacing project was being implemented with a view to promoting the health standard of mothers and children. There are now 20 townships where the project is being implemented with support from the UN Population Fund; the number would grow to 72 townships within the next three years, the Minister said. According to the 1994 ESCAP Population Data Sheet, the population of Myanmar is estimated to be about 45 million.</p>","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 233","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population pressure rising.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Even though the ESCAP region has been successful in slowing population growth, Asia will account for half of the global population increase every year, or about 1 billion persons in the next quarter century, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). That report, entitled \"Population Policy Paper,\" states that Asia will be the global center of population aging largely because of big increases in the number of persons over the age of 65 in China, Japan and the region's newly industrializing economies. \"By the year 2000, 86% of the world's aged will be in the Asia-Pacific region and by the year 2025 there are projected to be 687 million persons over the age of 65 in the region, placing unprecedented strains on economic and social systems far beyond what traditional extended family networks can absorb,\" the paper says. But the report also considers other aspects of overall population increase. \"The prospect of an additional billion or so people in Asia over the next 25 years is daunting, since the implications for poverty, economic growth, unemployment and environmental quality are immense,\" it adds. The region's economies will have to scramble to generate jobs and livelihoods for tens of millions of young people for the next several decades. Rural-to-urban migration trends threaten the collapse of urban infrastructure, with the social tensions and political instability that such troubles bring, the report states.</p>","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 233","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Final \"PrepCom\" meeting held for 1994 International Conference on Population and Development.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 230","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indonesia: population central to development.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 230","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pope, head of UNFPA discuss problems.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 230","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sri Lanka well on way to achieving goals.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85319,"journal":{"name":"Population headliners","volume":" 230","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22016251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}