This is the first programme performance report of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to be submitted to the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.

The proposed revisions to the ECA medium-term plan, shown in bold in section III of this paper, are intended to respond to such new mandates that have been given to ECA in the past two years.

In recent years, public enterprises reform and privatization have again become a topical policy issue in the dialectics of economic recovery, transformation and sustainable socio-economic development of African countries. ...

This document focuses on capacities to exploit natural resources and diversity African economies into processing and manufacturing. Human capacity to transform natural products is the prime requirement for accelerated ...

Report deals the ninth meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole.

This report therefore highlights the situation of unrecorded trade as it is actually taking place in many African countries. Its contacts are to a very large extent also based upon previous desk studies which have been ...

The planning strategy should be to identify points of potential leverage in African socio-economic systems and to apply pressure simultaneously to these points. In practice this should imply establishing,in a physical, ...

The Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme (MAP) is emerging as the African initiative for development, bringing together all partnership initiatives within a single framework. The Compact for African ...

The document talks about the Third Meeting of the Conference of Ministers resolution adopted by the conference of ministers, Co-Operation between the Economic Commission for Africa and the Organization of African Unity.