This paper focuses on the strategies for financial resource mobilization for Africa’s development in the 1990s. African economies are characterized by a low level of per capita income, high marginal propensity to consume, ...

The purpose of this report is to apprise the Conference of actions taken by the secretariat towards the follow-up on issues decided by the 1995 Conference of Ministers, which are not otherwise the subject of a separate ...

The report that follows on the African social situation aims at a review of the most recent developments in some major social development issues. Towards this end, the report is divided into five sections as follows: section ...

This paper focuses on Report on the economic and social situation in Africa, 1997. The improved performance of the Africa region in 1996 was due to the deepening of market-based private sector driven policies, favorable ...

The document was well received by the Preparatory Committee. Several non-African delegations spoke in praise of the Common Position and many African delegations urged that the seriousness of human and social conditions in ...

This document is a progress report on the establishment of the federation of African women entrepreneurs, an African bank for women and preparations for the fourth world conference on women, on The Advancement of women in Africa.

The proportion of the population in Africa living under conditions of poverty has increased at an even faster rate, both in the rural areas, where the economy continued to decline and in the cities, where there has been ...