Industrial development in the context of the industrial development decade for Africa : priority medium-and long-term measures

Abstract

The programme for the Industrial Development Decade for Africa, which aims at promoting the attainment of self-sustaining industrialization and self-reliant development, was formulated as a Means for implementing the industrial chapter of the Lagos plan of action. It was endorsed by the twentieth GAU Assembly of Heads of State and Government in November 1984, and earlier by the United Nations General Assembly –The programme sets out specific objectives to be achieved in the industrial sector as well as the priority industrial subsectors on which' efforts at national, subregional and multinational levels should be concentrated. Institutional mechanisms and criteria for identifying priorities in the industrial sector were designed to facilitate the achievements of these objectives at the national, regional and international levels. Furthermore, member States set themselves to achieve targets of 1.4 per cent and 2 per cent of the world industrial production by 1990 and the year 2000 respectively against the 0.9 per cent attained in 1980.