Acknowledgements


      A version of this paper was originally published by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific as part of their information kit “Implementation of the Agenda for Action on Social Development in the ESCAP region”, 1998

     The International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) is most grateful to the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Co-operation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands for their financial support for this publication.