This "Survey of Economic and Social Conditions in the African least developed countries, 1990-1991", is prepared as part of the regional follow-up and monitoring exercises, for the implementation of the Programme of Action, ...

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, ...

Against a brief discussion of the development objectives, policy framework and development strategies promoted by the various plans of action and initiatives of the last 13 years or so, this paper examines the implications ...

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 ...

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 ...

This document is a progress report on the establishment of the federation of African women entrepreneurs, an African bank for women and preparations for the fourth world conference on women, on The Advancement of women in Africa.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...