Africa Development Forum: Opening remarks by K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Africa
This Opening Remarks delivered by K. Y. Amoako Executive Secretary UN Economic Commission for Africa at the Africa Development Forum. Dr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that; The experience of other countries indicates that, intelligent public policies play a tremendous role. Such policies must relate to almost the entire range of society. Policies which are goal focused, carefully monitored, long-term, and which are intelligently led. Policies in education are critical since the most important resource for science-based economies is the human mind. Now we must focus like a laser beam on qualitative gain. Science and technology belongs at all levels of education. To produce the innovating societies necessary for the next generations, there must be very active setting of incentives, fostering of industries, facilitating research and development, and literally a myriad of economic, investment, patent, finance and technology policies.
| Format: | Speech biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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1999-10
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/47405 |
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