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 ...

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 ...

In recent years two population and development frameworks are in use in African countries i.e. the Dakar/Ngor Declaration on Population, Family and Sustainable Development (DND) and the Programme of Action of the International ...

Le Partenariat du Millénaire pour le Programme de redressement de 1'Afrique (Partenariat) a pris figure d'initiative africaine pour le développement, rassemblant toutes les initiatives de partenariat dans un cadre unique. ...

The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) is a membership-based research network whose Secretariat is located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was founded in 1980 in the town of ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is by far the worst affected region in the world (Annex- Table 1) An estimated 28.1 million Africans were living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2001 Among them an estimated 2 4 million children under 15 ...

The "Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic", UNAIDS, June 2000, states that the figure of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Africa has reached a staggering 24.5 million. The demographic impact of this is changing the fabric ...

Africa’s economic performance since 1999 has been quite impressive, especially when compared with the negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth trends of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The region’s average annual GDP ...