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Financing policies and pracitices in transport and communications sectors in Africa
(1995-11)
The study report makes a number of recommendations addressed (i) to African governments, (ii) to public enterprises, (iii) to private sector including financing institutions and (iv) to international community to effectively ...
Improvements in legal and regulatory constraints to private sector development (country case study: Cameroon)
(1994-08)
The development and strengthening of the private sector should be seen in the context of strategic measures which African countries are undertaking to speed up social and economic recovery and development during the closing ...
Directory of ECA-sponsored institutions
(1992)
The Directory of ECA-sponsored subregional and regional institutions in Africa is a publication of the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The Directory ...
Laying the foundation for the socio-economic transformation of Africa in the 1990s : the development policy agenda
(1991-05)
One of the issue which must feature prominently in Africa development policy agenda is the imperative necessity of getting its policy instruments right. All policy instruments, including adjustment measures must be ...
Rationalization of investment policies for Africa's development in the light of experience of Botswana
(1993-12)
The objectives and strategy behind Botswana's development since independence have been greatly influenced by the state and conditions existing in the economy at the time of independence at independence in 1946. Botswana, ...
Policy harmonization in maritime transport
(1998-04)
The objectives of the MARPOL Convention are total elimination of international pollution of the marine environment by oil and other harmful substances and the reduction of both operational and accidental discharges of such ...
Democratizing access to the Information Society
(1999)
The information revolution is calling for new imperatives in the way m which people throughout the world mobilize and utilize communication resources.This paper assesses the issues surrounding the democratization of access ...
The contribution of policy oriented research centres to economic reform and development: problems ans possibilities
(1992-09)
This paper entitled “The Contribution of Policy Oriented Research Centers to Economic Reform and Development: Problems and Possibilities” was written as part of the Senior Policy Workshop on the theme of "Enhancing the ...
Policy brief
(1998-05)
This Policy Brief is intended to serve as a medium through which the Food Security and Sustainable Development Division of the ECA can sensitize policy-makers, development planners and stakeholders on the African continent ...
Public enterprise reform and privatization in Egypt
(1994-12)
The move towards public sector reform (PSR) in Egypt was a long and hesitant process ever since the major nationalization drive in the early sixties. It dates from the late 1950's when an ambitious industrialization program ...