Among the development challenges facing many African countries, the most pressing are eradication of poverty, human resource development and the transformation of the productive structures of their economies, including the ...

This short study sets out to examine the role of women in the informal sector and their contribution to economic development. Even though the paper lacks in concrete statistical evidence for the majority of African countries, ...

This paper focuses on follow-up on African/European relations with special emphasis on North African proposed free trade area. This study on "Follow up on African/European Union relations with special emphasis on North ...

This document is the result of an intensive grappling with problems of the economic reconstruction of the former communist standard models for the states of Europe. The tasks which these countries are facing are historic ...

This brief note highlights the contribution of chambers of commerce and industry 1/ can make in promoting Africa's trade, especially trade with other regions from the South. The note is presented in three chapters. In ...

The Technical Committee Meeting of the First Conference of African Ministers responsible for Trade, Regional Cooperation, Integration and Tourism was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from to 13 February, 1996. The meeting was ...

The purpose of this report is to consider the prospects for expanding trade and economic relations among developing countries. After outlining the major trends in South-South trade, the main obstacles to the development ...

This document contains information on the Prospects for expanding Intra-African trade through planning of production on sub-regional basis, of the Technical Meeting of Experts of the Twelfth Session of the Conference of ...

This study falls in line with the ECA objective of assisting member States with their development efforts. In fact, it aims at setting up the major mechanisms for enabling African countries to stabilize their export revenues ...

This case study is being conducted in the context of the ECA work programme and priorities for the biennium 1994-1995. It focuses on the main aspects and the scope of trade liberalization schemes and mechanisms instituted ...