text: standards of livir), and to make a comprehensive analysis of the main causes and circumstances that explain negative trends in those indicators, indicating that chapters devoted to the study of specific social problems must be related to the global economic and social situation, taking into account both national and international conditions (resolution 1989172). At its forty-fourth session, 12p/ the General Assembly, noting that scientific and technological progress is an important factor in the social and economic development of society, invited the Commission for Social Development, in its discussion of the world social situation, to pay increasing attention to the effects of science and technology on the process of social welfare and development, and requested the Secretary-General, when elaborating the next report on the world social situation, to take due account of the effects of science and technology on processes of social welfare and development on the basis of information available from Governments and from organisations of the United Nations system (resolution 44154)~ end, persuaded of the importa.Ice of taking measures to ensure co-ordination within the United Nations system in order to develop a comprehensive approach to developmental social welfarer including better inteqrated and mutually supportive economic and social development policies aimed at the achievement of eocfal justice, recommended that the Secretary-General, in preparing studies and reports on social problems and, in perticular, the report on the world social situation, should examine questions of the realisation of social justice and ways in which it could be achieved (resolution 44/55); took note of the 1989 the &rJ.d social (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.S9.IV.l), including the information on the critical social situation in Africa provided in the annex to tbe report; endorsed the request made by the Economic and Social Council in paragraph 2 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the relationship between economic and social development, highlighting the importance of considering scientific and technological progress in addressing social problems. It also emphasizes the need for coordination within the United Nations system to achieve social justice and comprehensive development. These themes suggest that the text is focused on issues related to economic development and social welfare.