The Fourth Conference of African Ministers of Social Affairs was held at Africa Hall, Addis Ababa, from 25 to 26 March 1985. It was organized and convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the ...

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 eighth meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts of African Least Developed Countries was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 22 to 24 March 1989 to prepare for the ninth 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...