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 1986 season was generally good for agriculture allover the region and some countries recorded exceptional harvests. The broad trend of agricultural production over the years was resumed after the strong rise in 1985, ...

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 Survey, entitled Survey of Economic and Social Conditions in Africa, 1979-1980 reviews developments in the African region during the 1970s in the framework of the Second United Nations Development Decade, with emphasis ...

The present document contains the information on the Survey of economic and social conditions in Africa 1978 - 1979 - Part II : Section B, of the First meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole, held at ...

The paper deals about United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa : Report on progress in the implementation of the second phase of the decade programmed.