Human settlements in the external development assistance to African countries in the 1980s: (a draft discussion paper) by Don C.I. Okpala Human Settlements Officer UNCHS-Habitat/ECA

Abstract

The principal source data for this paper is UNDP’s annual development cooperation report for the various countries of the region the inferences draw from the analyses of these data are therefore subject to the limitations of the data themselves. These limitations includes incompleteness of data owning to inability of some donors to supply information in time or at all classification problem (overlaps)especially between the technical and capital assistance categorizations differing accounting systems terminologies and financial years by different donors fluctuating (dollar)foreign exchange rates possible disparities or gaps between donors commitments and actual donor disbursements.