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Privatization in the minerals industry of Africa: participation of domestic private sector
(1997-12)
The adoption by many African countries of liberalization principles and policies placing emphasis on private sector in their economic development had opened up the African mining industry to both domestic and foreign-based ...
Intervention de l'Etat et transformation structurelle de l’économie:cas de la campagne agricole en Guinée
(2017-08)
L’intervention de l’Etat à travers la subvention de certains programmes a-t-il un impact sur la transformation structurelle de l’économie ? Cette étude répond à cette question pour le cas de la campagne agricole en Guinée ...
Partnership Africa: an ECA programme for development cooperation a synopsis
(1998)
The April 1996 consultation among Africa's development partners convened by the ECA endorsed its role as a think tank for the continent's economic and social advancement. Participants agreed that by facilitating consensus- ...
Systems of national accounts : a comparative analysis
(1968-10)
This chapter is intended to provide a general background to our discussions on the problems of national accounting in Africa and the proposals by the economic commission for Africa for the adaptation of the systems of ...
Development poles
(1968-12)
Development, it ought to induce people to change not only the relations of production, hut also and above all, their attitude within the functioning of social activities. This is what is implied in the formulation of a ...
Economic forms in pre-colonial Ghana
(1971-01)
This paper uses a simple physiocratic model to examine forms of economic organization prevailing in Ghana before it was incorporated into the British Empire at the end of the nineteenth century. It is divided into three ...
The republic of Guinea: ten years of independence 1958 - 1968
(1971-01)
Guinea was the only territory of the former French colonial empire south of the Sahara to decide in favour of immediate independence, and this was declared on 28 September of that year in 1958. Guinea’s refusal to join the ...
Basic economic data:Tanganyika
(1968-03)
Prior to independence, Tanganyika was linked economically with the other countries of the East African High Commission. By comparison with the more highly developed Kenya, Tanganyika was neglected since the former received ...
Multinational corporations and the indigenisation of the Kenyan economy
(1974-09)
Kenya became structurally integrated into the world economy in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Initially during the colonial period, the economy became geared for the production of agricultural products for export ...
Financial control No.2
We have seen that public finance involves the commitment of considerable sums of money in numerous sectors; it is therefore highly important to scrutinize the use and efficiency of public money. Control in its widest sense ...