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ECA and UNCTAD course highlighted key issues on international economic agenda
(2009-02)
Better understanding of the infrastructure necessary to foster competitiveness and the relevance of transportation to trade and key issues in international trade negotiations and regionalism were the focus of the United ...
Financing for development in Africa: expert group meets in Abuja
(2009-02)
An ad-hoc expert group meeting on Financing for Development and Fiscal Policy in Africa opens in Abuja, Nigeria on Monday 16 February 2009. The meeting, which is being organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) ...
Knowledge economy key to job creation - high-level meeting to discuss
(2007-04)
The Economic Commission for Africa is to host a weeklong meeting aimed at using advances in information and communications technology to boost employment on the continent. Discussions at the fifth meeting of the Committee ...
Ministers to discuss African-owned framework for development partnership
(2001-05)
African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development meet to discuss a single African-led initiative to mediate partnership between Africa and its partners that will define the way forward in Africa’s development. ...
ECA & OECD prepare 2008 mutual review report
(2008-05)
Research is now underway for the preparation of the second edition of the Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness Report (MRDE) , which will be jointly produced by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the ...
Africa's region Adopts Recommendations for the Global Review of the Almaty Programme of Action
(2008-06)
The African Regional Review Meeting of the Almaty Programme of Action ended last week in Addis Ababa after four days of intensive discussions on how to assist landlocked and transit countries in Africa to overcome their ...
ECA and African Development Bank to convene 3rd African Economic Conference in Tunis
(2008-11)
The Third African Economic Conference (AEC) jointly organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will convene from 12-14 November in Tunis, Tunisia on ...
AU-ECA to Convene Economic Conference In Ethiopia this Month
(2008-03)
The first session of the Joint Annual Meetings of the African Union (AU) Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning ...
ECA conducts workshop to review progress with MDG-consistent national development plans
(2009-12)
The fourth meeting of the African Learning Group on Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Millennium Development Goals opened in Mombasa, Kenya. The outcome of this meeting will feed into several regional and international ...
Capacity building workshop - Addis Ababa, 14 november 2007
(2007-11)
This capacity building workshop is the last in a series of meetings that have been convened in the context of a United Nations Development Account project on “ Knowledge networking and sharing in a south-south partnership ...