The Addis Ababa Plan of Action for Statistical Development in Africa in the 1990s was formulated by statisticians at the sixth session of the Joint Conference of African Planners, Statisticians and Demographers in January ...

The Sixties started with a vision of a new Africa free of colonialism. The torch of freedom began in 1957 with Ghana followed by several others in the 1960s, including Nigeria the most populous African country. With ...

As a result of the economic programmes put in place in Africa, and in particular, the structural adjustment programmes, the demand for statistical information has assumed a short-term perspective. Few African countries ...

The GDDS is a system conceived by the IMF (the Fund) to improve the quality of economic, financial, and socio-demographic data in member countries. It is one of the most important strategic projects of the fund in the area ...

Les programmes économiques mis en oeuvre en Afrique et surtout les programmes d'ajustement structurel ont orienté la demande d'information statistique vers le court terme. Peu de pays africains étaient préparés à faire ...

The eighth meeting of the Coordinating Committee on African Statistical Development (CASD) took place at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) from 18 to 20 May 1998.

The Coordinating Committee on African Statistical Development (CASD) was established in 1992 following its recommendation in the Strategy for the implementation of the Addis Ababa Plan of Action for Statistical Development ...

At its twenty-ninth session (New York, 11 to 14 February 1997), the Statistical Commission decided that the topic of technical cooperation should be discussed in detail in separate meetings. Accordingly, in April and ...

This document tries to analyze, in a succinct manner, the major challenges confronting Africa in the area of statistical development in the year 2000 and beyond.

In the period April 1996 to May 1999, the ECA held a total of 8 regional workshops in the areas of international trade statistics, statistical information systems and statistical databases, environment statistics and ...