Population Commission, eighth session
Date:
14 March 1955 to 24 March 1955
Agenda
- Opening of the session by a representative of the Secretary-General
- Election of officers
- Adoption of the agenda
- Implementation of previous recommendations of the Commission:
- World Population Conference
- Technical assistance activities in the field of population
- Other projects previously recommended by the Commission
- Plans of the Secretary-General regarding publications and studies in the economic and social fields:
- Proposals for reorientation of the programme of population studies
- Possibilities of arranging for a part of the programme to be carried out by universities and other institutions in various countries
- Gaps in existing knowledge of relationships between population trends and economic and social factors
- Plans for the preparation of standards for population censuses to be taken in and around 1960
- Studies of internal migration
- Programme of population studies for 1955-56:
- Priority of projects
- Principles for selection of projects to be carried out mainly by the Secretariat and mainly by outside organizations under the sponsorship of the United Nations
- Adoption of the report of the Commission to the Economic and Social Council
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