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 ...

The 1986 season was generally good for agriculture allover the region and some countries recorded exceptional harvests. The broad trend of agricultural production over the years was resumed after the strong rise in 1985, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 seventh meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole was held in Yaounde, Republic of Cameroon, from 7 to 14 April 1986. The meeting was formally opened by H.E. Mrs. Elizabeth Tarikeu, Secretary of State ...

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 ...