Includes bibliographical references.

From the Lagos plan of action to the thirteenth special session of the United Nations General Assembly / Sadig Rasheed (24 p.). -- Survey on the implementation of APPER and UN-PAAERD economic commission for Africa / ECA Secretariat (32 p.). -- Country case studies / Owodunni Teriba (38 p.). -- Contribution of subregional institutions towards Intra-African trade, economic recovery and development / Bingu Wa Mutharika (21 p.). -- Regional and subregional perspectives / Owodunni Teriba (23 p.). -- External environment and the prospects for African economic recovery and accelerated development / A Ashiabor (20 p.). -- Financing of the implementation of UN-PAAERD / Sayre P Schatz (25 p.). -- Sub-Saharan Africa and OECD member states / Joseph C Wheeler (36 p.). -- United States assistance strategy for Africa / Richard J Haynes (16 p.).

Challenge of Africa's economic recovery and the concept of international economic security / A.A Sorokine (15 p.). -- Historical perspectives / Joseph Ki-Zerbo (23 p.). -- How politics underdevelops Africa / Claude Ake (14 p.). -- Consequences of political destabilization in Southern Africa for economic recovery in the subregion / Siteke G Mwale (23 p.). -- Gender, skill and power : Africa in search of transformation / Ali A Mazrui (21 p.). -- African development management reform : political and socio-cultural constraints versus the neo-classical imperative / David Fashole Luke (16 p.). -- Scientific and technological environment for African economic recovery and development / Thomas R Odhiambo (9 p.).

Scientific and technological perspective for African economic recovery and development, with particular emphasis on environmental aspects / Mansour Khalid (34 p.). -- Structural change and transformation of African economies / Adedotun O Phillips (15 p.). -- Measures and mechanisms for a new momentum for African economic recovery and development / Herbert Maurice A Onitiri (13 p.). -- General framework for an analysis of economic adjustment programmes in Africa with reference to the rural sector / S.C Nana-Sinkam (21 p.). -- Report on the International Conference on Growth and Structural Adjustment in Africa / IDEP Secretariat (16 p.). -- Growth and structural change in Africa : a global perspective / Essam Montasser (29 p.). -- Interlinkage between agricultural revolution and industrialization : alternative strategies for African development / Samir Amin (13 p.).

Essential role of regional and subregional institutions in African economic co-operation and integration / Makhtar Diouf (8 p.). -- Economic integration : lessons for African recovery and development / Arthur Hazlewood (26 p.). -- Dilemma of increased economic co-operation among African countries / Walter J Kamba (5 p.). -- Economic co-operation in Africa : role and relevance of regional and subregional institutions / J.M Mwanza (10 p.). -- Variable geometry or comprehensive automaticity? : strategies and experience of regional co-operation in Sub-Saharan Africa / Peter Robson (15 p.). -- Challenge of economic integration in Africa / Louis Sangare (20 p.). -- Issues in and prospects for co-operation between Africa and the international community / Timothy M Shaw (38 p.).

Challenge to the international community of sustatining Africa's economic recovery / Adebayo Adedeji (10 p.). -- Prospects of implementation of UN-PAAERD by the international community / John W Sewell (15 p.). -- Long-term prospects for co-operation between Africa and the international community / Commonwealth Secretariat (24 p.). -- Africa : the search for alternative forms of co-operation / Albert Tevoedjre (10 p.). -- Will Africa ever get out of its economic doldrums? / Adebayo Adedeji (20 p.). -- Africa's economic recovery and support from the international community / International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (26 p.). -- Structural trends in African economies / Abdelatif Benachenhou (18 p.).