Progress towards the implementation of the substantial new programme of action in African least developed countries : report by ECA secretariat

Abstract

The need for a set of special measures to enable the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) attain a structural transformation of their economies came to focus at UNCTAD II in 1968 when resolution 24 (II) was adopted specifically addressing the problems of countries with extremely poor development prospects. As a follow-up, the February 1979 G-77 Ministerial meeting in Arusha proposed a comprehensive programme of action which was outlined in UNCTAD resolution 122 (V) adopted at Manila in May, 1979. Finally, based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 34/203 of 17 December 1979, UNCTAD convened a conference on the Least Developed Countries in Paris, in September 1981 which subsequently adopted the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the Least Developed Countries, (SNPA). 1/