During the biennium 1992-1993, the activities to be carried out by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will continue to address the factors required to sustain African economic recovery and development as mandated in ...

Most societies want to achieve economic development in order to secure higher standards of living, now and for future generations. They also seek to protect and enhance their environment to achieve these goals. Sustainable ...

In the final analysis, reducing fertilizer subsidies in Indonesia is a question of enlightened economic foresight, the right reform tiding (e.g., following a good production year), and ability to overcome the rent-seeking ...

This paper focuses on strategies for sustainable development in Africa. The Paper starts by defining Economic Development as an improvement in the vector of socially desirable indicators that generally measure a people's ...

As a result of the increasing deterioration in the state of the world's environment, the United Nations General Assembly, by resolution 38/161 adopted at its thirty-eighth session, decided to set up a World Commission on ...

The overriding challenge today for most African countries is how to achieve sustainable development and poverty reduction in a global economy characterized by rapid globalisation and liberalisation. Although many regions ...

This document focuses on capacities to exploit natural resources and diversity African economies into processing and manufacturing. Human capacity to transform natural products is the prime requirement for accelerated ...

The agricultural and rural sector is very important in Africa and enormous efforts have been made to develop it, not only at the national level, but also at the regional and subregional level. However, despite this, the ...

The objective of this document is to report to the meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (TEPCOW) and through it, to the Conference of Ministers on: (a) the action taken by the Economic and Social ...

Africans economic performance in the first three years of 'the 1990s has left much to be desired in spite of earlier universally held expectations that this would be the decade for robust recovery growth and transformation ...