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 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 ...

This report follows from analyses of data and information prepared by the governments in the sub region in their economic and social situation, data and information available in publications by International institutions ...

In 1985, Africa’s total population was estimated at 551 million sixty – five percent of the population fell below 25 years. Youth, accordingly to the United Nations classification were in the age – group falling within ...

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 report covers the Centre's activities since the last meeting of the African Ministers of Social Affairs (AMSA V) held in Arusha, Tanzania from 27 to 28 October 1989. It focuses principally on the implementation of the ...

The major objective of the Substantial New Programme of Action (SNPA), as adopted in 1981, was to promote the necessary structural changes to overcome the LDCs' extreme economic difficulties in the 1980s and to create an ...

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 ...