The United Nations Secretariat has developed tools to build the capacity of their staff to be better prepared to face critical situations and strengthened the care and services available to those who suffer from injuries ...

There is a growing consensus and understanding of the consequences of child undernutrition at the individual and community levels, specifically the losses in individual physical and cognitive capacity. Nevertheless, there ...

The World Population Plan of Action, adopted by the United Nations World Population Conference at Bucharest in 1974 which gave a new importance and political sanction to population issues, urged countries with the afore ...

First, the core institutional mandate of the WTO, as a rules-based system, is trade liberalisation. Eliminating trade barriers significantly increases the medium to long-term trade development prospects of countries. Trade ...

Convinced of the importance of a forum where major stakeholders could gather in order to discuss most crucial developmental issues, to consult with their peers, plan their own strategy and design corresponding action plans, ...

The demographic transition theory postulates that generally as a result of socio-economic development, western societies evolved from populations with high mortality and fertility conditions to those with low mortality and ...

La gestion mutations socio-économiques est un processus complexe qui fait appel à plusieurs types de compétences et de facteurs. L’analyse des politiques et l’élaboration de politique constituent des éléments clés de la ...

Africa regional consultative meeting on the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration was held in collaboration with ECA, AUC and IOM. Migration is well recognized as an evitable part of the human experience ...

Over the past decade, the Government of Mali has been evolving a number of programmes and policies both to define a coherent development framework based on healthy and sustainable growth and also in a determined effort to ...

This volume of the African Population Studies Series contains estimates undertaken by ECA population division using primarily, although not exclusively, census data from countries included in the studies. The focus of these ...