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Kim Hak-Su, ESCAP

UN meeting on Asia-Pacific seeks to close huge financial gap for development

12 April 2006
A major United Nations meeting on the Asia-Pacific region today adopted a series of resolutions towards closing an annual $180-billion financing gap in crucial infrastructure development to improve the lives of nearly 700 million of the area’s most vulnerable and poorest people.

UN meeting on Asia-Pacific mulls two-track approach for regional development

11 April 2006
A major United Nations meeting on the Asia-Pacific region today discussed a two-track approach to cooperation focusing on both cross-border infrastructure development, such as highways and railways, and infrastructure investment like bonds and a development bank.
Kim Hak-Su, ESCAP

Asia-Pacific region faces staggering infrastructure needs, UN meeting is told

10 April 2006
In spite of some gains in transport, notably the Trans-Asian Railway Network and the Asian Highway Network, a staggering $600 billion a year is needed for infrastructure development in Asia-Pacific region as a whole, a major United Nations regional meeting was told today.

Jobs, global economy, cooperation top agenda of UN Asia-Pacific meeting

6 April 2006
A major United Nations regional conference for Asia and the Pacific opened today with a wide-ranging agenda that seeks to energize the global economy, tackle the growing threat of unemployment and underemployment, and enhance cooperation in infrastructure development.