Many African countries took serious steps during the last decade to reform their financial sector. Among the features of this new trend is that it has made a clean break with the past. Unlike what prevailed in these countries ...

The 1997 work programme forms part of the 1996-1997 biennial work programme of the Commission which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly. The impetus to revise the work programme for 1997 came from the reform ...

African countries have since the collapse of the generalized fixed exchange rate regime and the adoption of a generalized floating system by the industrialized countries in 1973, experimented with various types of exchange ...

There is an increasing awareness of the need for the continent to foster the results achieved during UNTACDA I, to speed up implementation of the Decade programmes and to project itself into the 21st century with a renewed ...