East African Industrial Research Organization Annual Report For The Period 1st July 1966 - 30th June 1967

Abstract

Over a period of some years a standing committee of he Economic Commission for Africa bas considered how best to initiate and expand industrial research in Africa so as to afford increased aid to 1lhe establishment of new industries and greater technical assistance to existing Industry thus ,to further the aims of accelerating industrial development Which is of such vital concern to die African countries. A study made by a consultants from ,the United Nations Centre for Industrial Development proposed ,that the country should be divided into a number of sUb;-egioos of which one would comprise Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malagasy, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.