Perspectives of the African region in the 1980s and policy implications

Abstract

On 15 December 1975 the General Assembly adopted resolution 3508 (XXX) calling for the examination of long-term trends in the economic development of world regions. The resolution requested, inter alia, the regional commissions to prepare studies on long—term trends in and forecasts of the economic development of their respective regions taking into account the national development programmes of individual countries and the particular characteristics and priorities, of the regions. In 1977 the Economic and Social Council adopted resolution 2O9O (LXIIl) which, inter alia, recommended that the regional commissions should continue and further expand their studies of long-term trends in their regions in order to reach practical conclusions regarding the expansion of economic co-operation both on a regional and on an international scale. The Council affirmed that the regional commissions should "bear in mind long-term prospects for the economic development of the regions of the world during- the elaboration of the new international development strategy.