The sub regional office for Southern Africa, which is based in Lusaka, Zambia, derives its programmatic direction and guidance from its Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) constituted by Commission Resolution 826 ...

Le présent rapport sur les conditions économiques et sociales en Afrique australe en 2007 est un document périodique présenté au Comité intergouvernemental d'experts (CIE) pour l'Afrique australe. Les principaux objectifs ...

Les pays membres de la CEEAC comme ceux de l’Afrique subsaharienne ont obtenu, au cours de la dernière décennie de bons résultats en matière de croissance et de stabilité macroéconomique. Par exemple, la croissance a ...

The objective of this background paper which was submitted to the Committee on Women and Development (CWD) is to reflect ECA's stance and comparative advantage on mainstreaming gender as a development goal, into the Poverty ...

This paper explores the development impacts of HIV/AIDS on African societies as well as their likely future ramifications. The paper concludes with a brief outline of the anticipated contribution of the Commission on ...

This Addendum to the Global Principles and Recommendations on Population and Housing Censuses is a set of guidelines, specific to the region, on topics, definitions and issues pertaining to both the operation and analysis ...

This paper focuses on agenda item 12: links between the households sector and other sectors. Links between the households sector and other sectors consist of all inter-sectoral flows, most of which are transactions (monetary ...

Post-independence development planning and policy making as typified by five-year Fixed Development Plans and succeeded by Flexible three-year Rolling Plans were largely predicated on trickle-down hypothesis. They were ...

The number of people living in absolute poverty in Africa is projected to increase from 380 million in 1998 to 451 million in 2015. Reversing this trend will require accelerating the rate of economic growth. Many countries ...

This paper seeks to address aspects of leadership by exploring seven main issues of economic development that are central to the well-being of youth in Africa: education and training; employment and migration; entrepreneurship; ...