Report on the African social situation in 1993

Abstract

The report that follows on the African social situation aims at a review of the most recent developments in some major social development issues. Towards this end, the report is divided into five sections as follows: section II analyses the major developments in the health, food and nutrition, education and literacy, employment, incomes and poverty, and population and development sectors, and concludes that these sectors are confronted with a crisis of unparalleled dimensions; section III provides information on the marginalization of such groups as women, youth and refugees; section IV addresses the issues of coordination and implementation of social development issues and concludes that for effective utilization of scarce resources, governments must give coordination and implementation the priority they deserve; whilem section V summarizes and concludes the report.