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Monitoring social investment in Africa: do spending targets help?
(2018)
Social investment refers to the economic effort made on the social development of individuals, households and communities. The use of the term “investment” is applied because the resources allocated to social issues (i.e., ...
Indice Africain de développement social mesurer l’exclusion humaine dans une optique de transformation structurelle: rapport Afrique de l’Ouest
(2017)
La croissance économique positive enregistrée en Afrique au cours des deux dernières décennies a été résiliente face à la crise internationale de 2008. Elle ne s’est cependant pas traduite en retombées significatives sur ...
ECA's IDEP collaborates with UNDP in gender and economic management course
(2010-10)
The capacity building arm of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Institute of Development and Economic Planning (IDEP), announced today in Tunis that it is collaborating with UNDP in designing and teaching a ...
Assessing Progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals : MDG Report 2013
(2013)
This year’s Assessing Progress in Africa towards the Millennium Development Goals uses the latest updated and harmonized data from United Nations Statistics Division—the official data repository for assessing progress ...
African Social Development Index : measuring human exclusion for structural transformation report for Southern Africa
(2016-04)
The African Social Development Index (ASDI) is based on a request from African member States to ECA to develop a tool that reflects the African specific development challenges. It is built on the premise that social ...
African social development index (ASDI): measuring human exclusion for structural transformation: East Africa report
(2016-09)
African countries have experienced unprecedented economic growth since the early 2000s, and shown strong resilience to the global downturn affecting most of the world’s economies. Growth on the continent has averaged 5 ...
Subprogramme 6 of the Economic Commission for Africa: Development of national satellite accounts of household production
(2015-12)
The present document serves two main purposes. Firstly, it discusses how the production of the household sector is accounted for in official national accounts and the limitations of such a treatment. Secondly, it presents ...
African Social Development Index measuring human exclusion for structural transformation: Central Africa report
(2017)
Africa’s positive economic growth during the past two decades has shown its resilience in the wake of the international crisis of 2008. This positive performance, however, has not yet translated into meaningful social ...
Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: opening inroads for enhancing gender and social development policies
(2015-12)
African leaders have defined the region’s long-term strategic vision and priorities for inclusive growth and transformation in Agenda 2063. The present document provides an overview of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable ...
Report of the meeting of experts at the Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration
(2017-12)
The fourth conference was being organized as a follow-up to the previous conferences, to exchange views, share experiences and best practices, and identify challenges in the area of CRVS in Africa. The heads of state and ...