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 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 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 ...

As a rather of urgency, African countries must strengthen their statistical infrastructures as a basis for effective policy-making and planning. In this connection, they are urged to formulate statistical development ...

This paper is divided into five sections. After the introductory section, the second section examines the development problematique facing post-apartheid South Africa, particularly the political, economic and social ...

The twenty-seventh session of the Economic Commission for Africa/eighteenth meeting of the Conference of Ministers responsible for economic planning and development, held in April 1992, adopted the Strategy for the ...