Maldives / Nepal / Tonga / Myanmar / Mongolia / Solomon Islands / Bangladesh / Cambodia / Kyrgyzstan / Armenia / East Timor / Iran / Fiji / Kazakhstan / Thailand / Indonesia / Turkey / Malaysia / Uzbekistan / Russia / Azerbaijan / Pakistan / Afghanistan / Soviet Union / Philippines / China / Georgia / Papua New Guinea / India / Palau / Bhutan / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Environmental Issue / /
IndustryTerm
statistical systems / /
Organization
United Nations Statistics Division / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia / Asian Development Bank / Lao PDR / ADB / Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific / United Nations / United Nations Development Programme / China Development Research Foundation / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific / /
Person
Hitomi Rankine / Eric Hermouet / Ajay Tandon / Kim Hak-Su Hafiz / Santosh Mehrotra / Imae Ann Mojado / Anuradha Rajivan / Sara Duerto Valero / Mia Mikic / Kallidaikurichi Easwaran Seetharam / Jan Smit / Yap Kioe Sheng / Omar Noman / Zeynep Orhun / Ying Qui / Hafiz Pasha Bindu / Christian Stoff / Bindu N. Lohani / B. Murali / Nixie Mabanag / Jacques Jeugmans / /
Position
Director General / author / Executive Secretary / Assistant Secretary-General & UNDP Assistant Administrator / /
FOREWORD Although the Asian and Pacific region as a whole is on its way to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), progress by many countries individually is still slow and performance on some targets, particularly the health-related ones, including water and sanitation, is unsatisfactory. In terms of absolute numbers, the scale of deprivation faced by the Asian and Pacific region is daunting. It accounts for the major share