The present document reviews in summary way major trends in the African region in the framework of the International Development Strategy for the 1980s as well as the Lagos Plan of Action. The period under review covers ...

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 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 present paper is just an attempt to throw some light on some aspects of the problems of the African least developed countries. Its limitations lie, inter alia, both in the methods used and in the fact that it deals ...

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 ...

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 ...

The report provides an overview of the major activities carried out by the Commission and its secretariat under the programme structure approved in 1996 and revised in 1998, which consists of seven mutually complementary ...

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 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 ...