Identified manpower and training problems in Africa: status report prepared by the Secretariat

Abstract

Economic and social development is today the major preoccupation of the authorities in the various African countries. This legitimate concern is the result of exigencies which are not only human but above all, political. With the present development of information media the African peoples are becoming increasingly aware that their poverty is not inescapable and are urging their leaders to consider means for enabling them to share as rapidly as possible in the prosperity enjoyed by the peoples of the richer continents,