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Private equity funds can help retain capital in Africa - says ECA's Lopes
(2014-04)
Capital flight represents a direct loss of domestic capital and highlights the effects of the country’s policy distortions on investment and the factors that fuel it, such as real exchange rate overvaluation has to be ...
Africa's fork in the road pointing to industrialization, says Lopes
(2014-03)
A decade after former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s made his landmark ‘fork in the road’ speech to the General Assembly calling for the reform of the global body, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for ...
Lopes says green energy is the way for Africa's industrialisation, panel explains why
(2014-03)
The United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Carlos Lopes, has urged African countries to use renewable energy and develop leap-frogging capabilities to ...
Un accord commercial d'ampleur, un pas de plus pour le continent - Carlos Lopes
(2015-06)
Ce présent document porte sur l'accord convenu entre les trois Communautés économiques régionales (le COMESA, la CAE et la SADC) pour la zone de libre-échange comme la bonne voie prise par le continent. M. Lopes s'exprimant ...
US companies missing out on African investments - says ECA's Lopes
(2014-08)
On the eve of the Africa-US Summit to be held in Washington DC this week, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has underscored that with Africa attracting major investments from ...
Carlos Lopes bids farewell to "strategist" Kaberuka
(2015-08)
The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Carlos Lopes bid farewell to Mr. Donald Kaberuka, the outgoing President of the African Development Bank, at a function held in Abidjan. Mr. Lopes, who ...
Mega trade agreement a step forward for the continent-Carlos Lopes
(2015-06)
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has lauded the tripartite free trade area agreement reached by three Regional Economic Communities (COMESA, EAC and SADC) as a step in the right direction ...
Africa needs a new relationship dynamic says ECA's Lopes
(2014-05)
UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of ECA – Carlos Lopes called on Africa to change the nature of its relationships in order to benefit from what he termed quality growth. The Forum which is in its third ...
We insist on transformation, Lopes tells Cameroon's commonwealth minister
(2014-02)
Sustained growth is important but the transformation of the structure of economies in Central Africa is indispensable for countries of the sub-region to effectively tackle poverty, remarked ECA’s Executive Secretary, Mr ...