The present report, which is being submitted to the forty-third session of the Commission, covers the period between June 2009 and March 2010 and highlights the main achievements of the secretariat of the United Nations ...

This issues paper identifies important issues and questions for consideration by African ministers, central bank governors and high-level experts, regarding how Africa can be part of the solution to the problem of global ...

This report assesses the progress that Africa and its development partners have made towards achieving the targets in the above-mentioned areas, and proposes broad policy options for improving Africa’s development finance ...

This paper focuses on Status of CAADP Implementation and the MDGs.The major key issues, therefore, broadly include;limited or low agricultural production and productivity;inadequate infrastructure and markets for agricultural ...

This paper focused on the overview of economic and social conditions in Africa 2010.

For the purpose of this assessment, the approach used consists in monitoring average annual values of key macroeconomic and financial variables. Two different periods are considered and the sets of data refer to the period ...

The purpose of the Africa 2050 report will be to chart a pathway to this goal.This note offers a preview of the report, starting with a brief historical backdrop on recent and future development in Africa. It sketches the ...

In September 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in what was called the Millennium Declaration. More than 180 countries signed this declaration. The main objective ...

This performance improvement, widely shared across countries, but raised hopes of a possible turnaround, compared to the stagnation of the previous two decades. Yet this growth did not result in significant creation of ...

Africa’s past performance and its endowment in resources suggest that the region’s growth prospects are bright. Although some African countries have used good policies and governance to spur unprecedented growth rates ...