The Joint Conference of African Planners, Statisticians and Demographers, acting within the fraiuework of the policies and procedures of the United Nations and subject to the general supervision of the Economic CoEimiscion ...

The following study was undertaken in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 3508 (XXX) of 15 December 1975 which called for the examination of long-term trends in the economic development of the world, Economic and ...

The stagnation in GDP in the 1970s and the high rate of population increase caused a pronounced fall in per capita GNP from 624: in 1975: to 510 in 1978 (at 1975 prices). Furthermore, as a result of the very high rate of ...

This report summarizes activities carried out by the ECA within the framework of the implementation of the 1995-1997 regional programme of work. It should be pointed out that more detailed reports on some of the activities ...

This study aims essentially at identifying the areas where basic African economic and social statistics need particular improvement to meet the needs of these far-reaching strategies implied in new international economic ...

According io preliminary estimates of ECA, African developing countries as a whole grew at an average annual rate of about 5.5 per cent in 1979 compared with an average growth of 4.6 per cent in 1978. However, most of the ...

The Conference of Ministers is invited to consider the role of quantitative information in African development, particularly in the context of the Lagos Plan of Action. The main thesis of the present paper is that effective ...

The food supply situation which was so critical in the previous years due tb drought and other calamities, except in a few countries returned to normal in 1985. In spite of the recorded increase in value added of agriculture ...