Report of the executive secretary to the executive committee

Abstract

In many ways this meeting of the Executive Committee comes at a time When conventional approaches to development and economic growth,, strategies and policies and to the reform of the international economic order are being called into question and far-reaching changes in the economic order of the world are being contemplated. The International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, on which African Strategy for the Development adopted at Tunis in 1971 was based on formulated before the full dimensions of the weaknesses of the international economic order had become evident.