Preamble

The Regional Planning Council of ECO at its 31st Meeting held on 12-21 January 2021, at ECO Secretariat (virtual mode) has recommended the following developments on statistics in 2021: (i) Implementing the “ECO Five – Year Strategic Plan on Statistics” in the ECO-NSOs;
(ii) Updating ECO Statistical Network with ECOKSIs under new framework of ECO Data Bank and ensure international statistical reporting through ECO Statistical Report, and
(iii) Ensuring adequate capacity building among the ECO-NSOs of Member States (paragraph-18, “I” Sector, Economic Research and Statistics”, ECO Work Programme 2021).