The African Ministers of Trade have persistently urged for effective systems to collect and disseminate trade information within the region for greater promotion of intra-African trade. To this end during their Twelfth ...

This is the first programme performance report of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to be submitted to the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.

Trade liberalization has been widely used as an economic tool for stimulating trade in the economies. To this end, it has been adopted by most of the integration groupings in their Treaties in the hope that it would be ...

This document focuses on Draft work program and priorities in ECA Multinational programming and operational center (MULPOC)-Lusaka.

This report therefore highlights the situation of unrecorded trade as it is actually taking place in many African countries. Its contacts are to a very large extent also based upon previous desk studies which have been ...

This paper presents the Progress report on the study on the Identification of products to be traded under the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Programme, of the Multinational Programming and Operational Center for West Africa ...

This paper is a Report of the meeting of officials from Eastern and Southern African states concerning the finalization of the draft treaty for the establishment of a preferential trade area for Eastern and Southern African ...

It will be recalled that at its fifth session held in Manilla, Philippines, from 7 May to 3 June 1979 the Conference did not reach a general agreement on the major substantive issues concerning the development of trade and ...

The ninth session of the Conference of African Ministers of Trade was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 19 to 20 March 1987. It was opened by Comrade Wollie Chekol, Member of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of ...