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Report on the effectiveness of regional and subregional development projects in the agricultural and rural sector, with particular emphasis on environment and sustained development
(1992-03)
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 ...
Report on the first African regional conference on environment and sustainable development held in Kampala, Uganda, 12-16 June 1989
(1990-02)
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 ...
Proposed programme of work and priorities for the biennium 1992-1993
(1991-03)
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 ...
An issues paper: Africa and the multilateral trading systems Doha and beyond
(2001-06)
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 ...
African strategies for the implementation of UNCED agenda 21 : a proposal
(1993-02)
The objective of these proposals is, therefore, to evolve the strategies to enable African countries to address the problems of eradicating poverty through sustainable development. In the subsequent sections, an outline ...
Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its regular session of 1990 and by the United Nations General Assembly at its forty fifth session in the Economic and Social Sectors that are of interest to Africa
(1991-02)
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 ...
Strategies for sustainable development in Africa
(1992-05)
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 ...
Production subsidy and price support policies for food self-sufficiency in Africa
(1990-04)
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 ...
Facing the challenges of sustainable development and environment in Africa : issues paper
(1996-01)
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 ...
Capacities to exploit natural resources and diversify African economies into processing and manufacturing
(1994-03)
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 ...