Concerted action on transportation in the African region

Abstract

The paper on "Transport Problems in Relation to Economic Development in West Africa" which has "been prepared, for this session of the Commission follows from the request of the Commission for specific studies and projects in the field of concerted action.. The study of transport problems is, therefore, related to other resolutions of the Commission such as that on surveys of intra-African trade and. industry (Resolution 8(ll)), on inventories of Africans natural resources (Resolution 13(ll)) and other item in the programme of work of the Secretariat such as Project No. 02-0l(c): "Studies of regional trade arrangements made or contemplated in other areas, including the significance of experience gathered in such areas to economic co-operation in. Africa."