There does not seem to be an agreed definition of what is considered as juvenile delinquency and criminality. It is just as well that no rigid definition should be applied, as each country, society and community in a given ...

The Survey of Economic and Social Conditions in Africa,1982-1983 is published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in compliance with its mandate to provide an analysis of trends in the African economy ...

The Survey for 1977-1978 is also the fourth biennial review of progress during the "Second' United Nations 'Development Decade' and" is published' in' two" parts.Part I.includes a summary and after reviewing the international ...

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 ...

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 second meeting of the Inter-governmental Committee of Experts of African Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was held in Addis Ababa Socialist Ethiopia, from 11-13 April 1983. The meeting adopted the following agenda: ...

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 ...

The eighth meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole was held at ECA headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 13 to 20 April 1987. The meeting was formally opened by Comrade Hersie Ijigu, Member of the ...