First, the core institutional mandate of the WTO, as a rules-based system, is trade liberalisation. Eliminating trade barriers significantly increases the medium to long-term trade development prospects of countries. Trade ...

Convinced of the importance of a forum where major stakeholders could gather in order to discuss most crucial developmental issues, to consult with their peers, plan their own strategy and design corresponding action plans, ...

This paper is to review major Commission-wide initiatives and program developments undertaken in the preceding year and to outline the directions for the current year 2001 program. To set the stage, the paper highlights ...

The operational and structural rationalization of the General Services Section (GSS) comes at a timely confluence of the UNECA repositioning strategy and the planned implementation of the enterprise resource planning (ERP). ...

The Operational Mechanism described below proposes the process whereby the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme of the African Plan of Action could be implemented. Operating within the regional and global framework of the ...

Le Partenariat du Millénaire pour le Programme de redressement de 1'Afrique (Partenariat) a pris figure d'initiative africaine pour le développement, rassemblant toutes les initiatives de partenariat dans un cadre unique. ...

The Information Technology Centre for Africa (ITCA) is information and communication technology (ICT) focused exhibition and learning centre. The concept of ITCA has grown out of the need to wrap a framework around the ...

La création de bibliothèques est rentable et cet investissement génère des bénéfices. Des analyses de rentabilité à long terme concernant les bibliothèques techniques ont montré qu'en termes monétaires, les bibliothèques ...

Ce document a pour objet d'examiner d'abord le développement de la méthodologie dévaluation et de présenter ensuite les résultats de l'enquête de la CEA selon la nouvelle approche d'évaluation de la mise en œuvre du SCN ...

The 21st century dynamics is determined and driven by knowledge-based economics. It is an unfolding knowledge economy. The factors of production, the products and the dynamics of the market place are shaping to be radically ...