Before the decade of the 1960s, the dominant role of agriculture in Nigeria’s economy was taken for granted. With very little support from government, Nigerian agriculture was able to grow at a sufficient rate to provide adequate food for an increasing population, raw materials for a budding industrial sector, increasing public revenue and foreign exchange for government and employment opportunities for an expanding labour force.
The combined forces of political turmoil, adverse climatic conditions and an all round decline in productivity in all sectors of the economy reduced the population of Ethiopia into a state of abject poverty. There has not been any time, since the early 1980s when the economy grew at a rate higher than that of the population. GDP grew at an average rate of 2.7% between 1965 and 1980 and at 1.9% between 1980 and 1989.
Rural Development Policy
The geographical location of Ethiopia and its endowment with favorable climate provides a relatively higher amount of rainfall in the region. Much of the water, however, flows across the borders being carried away by the transboundary rivers to the neighboring countries. Although we can not be definite due to lack of researched data as yet, preliminary studies and professional estimates indicate that the country has an annual surface runoff of close to 122 billion cubic meters of water excluding ground water.
The National Food and Nutrition Policy is a document that provides the framework for addressing the problems of food and nutrition insecurity in Nigeria, from the individual, household, community and up to the national level. It guides the identification, design, and implementation of intervention activities across different relevant sectors. Nutrition is a multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary issue involving various sectors including health, agriculture, science and technology, education, trade, economy, and industry.
The first case of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Nigeria was reported in 1986. Since then, infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has spread to become a generalised epidemic affecting all population groups and sparing no geographical area in the country. HIV/ AIDS has negatively impacted every sector of the economy, and continues to threaten the national development gains of the past decades.
Abridged National Vision for Malaw - Malawi 2063 - CHICHEWA VERSION-6
Malawians have spoken. The Malawi 2063 (MW2063) aims to transform Malawi into a wealthy and self-reliant industrialized ‘upper-middle-income country’ by the year 2063.
Already, projections indicate that if the economy grows at an annual average rate of 6 percent, Malawi will attain the low middle-income status by 2030.
As a matter of fact, if the country is more innovative and productive, both the low and upper middle-income status will be reached much earlier.
The first cases of COVID-19 in Malawi,which also marked the beginning of the first wave of the pandemic, were confirmed on 2nd April 2020. The transmission of COVID-19 evolved very slowly, with cases increasing moderately until they reached a first wave peak in early July 2020. The rapid transmission of COVID-19 cases was partly aided by the returning residents from neighbouring countries, especially South Africa; and political campaigns ahead of the June 2020 elections, when social distancing and other hygiene protocols were flouted.
The African Union’s Assembly of the Heads of State declared 2016 as the “African Year of Human Rights with a special focus on women”. The Assembly also declared 2017 as the year for “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in the Youth”. In line with these twin declarations, the Economic and Social Affairs Department of the African Union has prepared this “State of African Population Report 2017”.