text: (b) To discuss the ways in which population factors interact with · measures of social development; (c) To foster the linkage between a system of development indi­ cators and the development process. B. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING 8. The participants included 17 experts from 11 members and asso­ ciate members of ESCAP, namely: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Iran, J United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Research Data Bank of Development Indicators (Geneva, 1976). 2 United Nations publication, Sales No. 74.XVIl.8. 3 Social Indicators: Preliminary Guidelines and Illustrative Series (United Nations publication, Sales No. E. 78.XVIl.8). · · 2 Japan, Malaysia, · Philippines, Republic of Korea, . Sri Lanka, Thailand and United States o(America. An expert from the United Nations Re­ search Institute for Social Development, Geneva, had been invited but was not able to attend; however, he was able to contribute a ·paper for. discussion. · · · 9. The Meeting was opened on 3 October 1978 by the. President and Executive Director of the Population Center Foundation of the. · Philippines. In welcoming the participants, he posed some. issties re­ garding the development of social indicators. He wondered abotit the extent to which policy-makers and planners of countries of the region had accepted that there. was a· need to develop social indicators for measuring social progress; if they had. not accepted, how they could be made to accept and by whom; and, if they had accepted, how~ and. · who determined the priority in which social indicators were to be used. 10. In a message to the participants read out at the Meeting, the Executive Secretary of ESCAP welcomed 'the participants and expressed his thanks to· the Population Center Foundation for collaborating with · ESCAP in preparing for and conducting . the Meeting; He described · ESCAP's interest in the development of measuring adequate indicators 
analysis: This text appears to be focused on the development of social indicators to measure social progress, which is a key aspect of economic development. The text mentions the interaction between population factors and measures of social development, which suggests a connection to issues related to employment, education, and health. Additionally, the text mentions the development process and the need to link a system of development indicators to this process, which further supports the categorization under economic development.