Monitoring Africa's development progress and aid flows requires basic empirical data that can be readily used by analysts. African development indicators 1997, a World Bank publication, provide a starting point for accomplishing that task. This revised and expanded statistical collection...

This volume, which is the third in a series that began with African Economic and Financial Data (World Bank and UNDP) in 1989, followed by the first African Development Indicators in 1992, presents data from 53 African countries, arranged in 255 separate tables or matrices for more that 300...