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UNITED NATIONS
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
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6 December 1978//
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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Conference of African Planners
Seventh session
Addis Ababa, 11-18 December 1978
Follow-up to decisions taken at the Sixth Session of the Conferenoe Addis Ababa 21-29 October 197? ~ " "
!• Agenda for the seventh session of the Conference in 1978
(a) 9.242,07 - Study and evaluation of the experience of selected African
countries in the implementation of indigenization policies.
Case studies on the role of public enterprises and companies in the transformation of African economies and
(c) Studies on the role of small-scale and medJjarscale indigenous business
in the process of socio-economic transformation and development in Africa.
While on item 9.242.07, the study on indigenization has been completed and a paper is being presented, items 9.242.08 and 9.242.09 have been postponed because
of staff and resource shortages and because it was necessary to carry out urgent work on projections in preparation for the development decade of the 1980s. The papar headed "The Search for a Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade and the Role of the ECA Region" covers the work done on projections for
certain countries in the region.
2' BCA Multinational Programming and Operational Centres (MULFOCs)
Documents fi/CH.14/CAP.7/5 and e/CN.14/CAP.7/6 outline the follow-up to decisions
taken at the sixth session of the conference and the Kinshasa Conference of Ministers.
The United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning-
(IDEP) "—' c : a
Document E/CN.14/CAP.7/7 outlines the follow-up to decisions taken at the
sixth session of the conference and the Kinshasa Conference of Ministers and the meeting of the Executive Committee held at Khartoum.
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