This paper explores the credibility of exchange rate arrangements for the five African Portuguese-speaking (PALOP) countries. Our working hypothesis is that credibility necessarily implies low mean exchange market pressure ...
Des entreprises publiques multinationales sont utilisées dans un certain nombre de domaines, avec des structures et des fonctions différentes suivant les tâches qu'elles avaient à remplir. On trouvera dans les pages suivantes ...
L’Afrique centrale, comme entité regroupant des pays membres des ACP et de l’OMC, est engagée dans deux processus de négociations commerciales majeurs, l’un multilatéral à l’OMC et l’autre dans le cadre des accords de ...
This report applied Ordinary Least Squares to an Analysis of Covariance model consisting of cross-sectional data that captured various features of selected microfinance institutions in Namibia to identify the factors that ...
Le principe de l'égalité entre l'homme et la femme tel que stipule dans la Charte des Nations Unies, la majorité des Constitutions nationales et les multiples instruments juridiques tels que la "Déclaration relative aux ...
The paper deals the third world and in Africa in particular, societies have created and even reinforced female oppression. Political and ideological structures of society have created barriers against which women have to ...
The aim of this Issues Paper is to review the mix of actions necessary
to finance the developmental goals of Africa and to present
policy options for the consideration of African Finance Ministers.
This paper identifies and discusses some key issues and challenges in financing agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis first reviews recent trends in agricultural financing focusing on both external and domestic ...
The purpose of this paper is to highlight and get deeper understanding of what
kind of health policies is more beneficial for the poor. It aims at provoking
discussion on the reach of health policies for the poor and the ...
The importance of achieving sustainable economic development through cooperation was recognized in Africa as of 1958 when the first conference of independent African states was held in Accra, Ghana. The multiplicity of ...
This document is focuses on building critical capacities for the accelerated growth and sustainable industrial development in Africa into the 21 century. In the current issue of Focus on African Industry, articles have ...
The purpose of this article, was to consider one global industry and its associated technology and how it could drastically affect Africa for better or worse, way into the twenty-first century.
The second meeting of the Sub-committee on Statistics of the Committee on Development Information (CODI) was held at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Addis Ababa, from 4 to 7 September 2001. ...
The Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Trade, Regional Cooperation, Integration and Tourism held its first session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 14 to 16 February 1996. The Conference was organized by the ...
The purpose of this report is to apprise the Conference of actions taken by the secretariat towards the follow-up on issues decided by the 1995 Conference of Ministers, which are not otherwise the subject of a separate ...
La crise économique persistante qui sévit en Afrique est de nature structurelle. Elle se caractérise par la désagrégation des infrastructures et des outils de production. La production agricole, plus particulièrement ...
The first four years of the 1990s indicate that African economies have grown by an estimated mere 1.5 per cent per annum - worse than during the "lost decade" of the 1980s when Africa's economic annual growth rate was on ...
This is the combined eleventh and twelfth issues of the FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS FOR AFRICA, SERIES C: SUMMARY TABLES which presents data for the years 1982-1991 and follows the same pattern as the previous one except that ...