By its resolution 42/169, the United Nations General Assembly decided to declare a decade for natural disaster reduction and by its resolution 44/236, proclaimed the 1990s as the International Decade for Natural Disaster ...

The main aim of the Conference was to review the efforts made by member States in implementing the Kilimanjaro Programme of Action (KPA) recommendations and the associated difficulties. The outcome of the exercise was the ...

Acute poverty, chronic food-insecurity and under-development generally spreading in rural Africa are rooted in low and declining outputs in the household farming sub-sector which produces the bulk of agricultural output. ...

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 Executive Secretary welcomed and thanked the ministers and plenipotentiaries participating in the meeting. He noted that the agenda was straightforward and consisted of one main item namely the consideration of the ...

This report is divided into two parts. Part I presents the progress report on the international conferences/summits, namely the international Conference on Population and Development; the World Summit for Social Development; ...

The purpose of the present document is, to provide the meeting with an account of action taken by the ECA secretariat towards the implementation of these resolutions.

The document focuses on the twenty-ninth session of the commission twentieth meeting of the Conference of Ministers responsible for economic and social development and planning convened under the theme "ECA at 35:Building ...

La trente et unième session de la Commission/vingt-deuxième réunion de la Conférence des ministres responsables du développement économique et social et de la planification s'est tenue au nouveau Centre de conférences ...

The links between population and development have always been seen within the context of population and resources. This issue has engaged the attention of traditional economists like Malthus who were worried about rapid ...