The fourth meeting of the Inter-governmental Committee of Experts of African Least Developed Countries was held in Addis Ababa. Socialist Ethiopia, from 11 to 13 April 1985. The meeting was opened at 15:00 hrs on 11 April ...

The seventh meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts of African Least Developed Countries was held in Niamey, the Niger, from 1 to 4 April 1988 to prepare for the eighth meeting of the Conference of Ministers ...

Since the Nairobi Conference (July 1935) and the adoption of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies by the United Nations General Assembly, the world and the African region in Particular has witnessed an unprecedented ...

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 paper deals the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies, adopted in 1985, made concrete recommendations as to which policy and programme measures are needed to promote women's self-reliance and full integration in the ...

This Survey, entitled Survey of Economic and Social Conditions in Africa, 1979—1980 reviews developments in the African region during the 1970s in the framework of the Second United Nations Development Decade, with emphasis ...

At the eyeteeth session of the Commission and ninth meeting of the Conference of Ministers, held in conjunction with the Silver Jubilee Anniversary Celebrations of the Commission at Addis Ababa from 27 April to 2 May 1983, ...

The United Nations Conference on LDCs held in Paris in 1981 enabled those countries, classified as the "economically weakest and poorest countries with the most formidable structural problems" to present a critical analysis ...

The sixth meeting of the intargovernmsntal Committee of Experts of African Least Developed Countries was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 9 to 11 April 1987 in preparation for the seventh meeting of the Conference of ...

The stagnation in GDP in the 1970s and the high rate of population increase caused a pronounced fall in per capita GNP from 624: in 1975: to 510 in 1978 (at 1975 prices). Furthermore, as a result of the very high rate of ...