The objectives of this special meeting of the Governing Council of IDEP were to review and enrich the report of the Panel, which will be presented to the 41st session of the Commission’s Conference of Ministers, and to ...

In this context the paper provides the rationale for the creation of a multilateral special fund which would mobilize external resources for the financing of African development on concessional terms.

At its thirty-sixth session, the General Assembly adopted resolution 36/178 on ECA's Multinational Programming and Operational Centers (MULPOCs). By paragraph 4 of that resolution, the General Assembly invited the ...

The Survey of Economic and Social Conditions in Africa for 1984-1985 is the product of field surveys carried out during the year 1985 by the staff of the Socio-economic Research and Planning Division of the Economic ...

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.

This paper focused on the resolution 257(XII). Capacity of the regional economic commissions for Africa a unified approach to 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.

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, ...