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The new partnership for Africa's development (NEPAD)
(2001-10)
This New Partnership for Africa's Development is a pledge by African leaders, based on a common vision and a firm and shared conviction, that they have a pressing duty to eradicate poverty and to place their countries, ...
Rapport sur les conditions économiques et sociales en Afrique Centrale, 2000: l'intégration et le financement du commerce intra sous-régional
(2000)
Cette tendance s’est prolongée également en Afrique centrale (comprenant les six pays de la CEMAC plus Sao Tomé & Principe) où il a été enregistré dans l’ensemble un taux de croissance de 4,0% à la fin de 2000.
Road safety in Ethiopia: case study
(2009)
Road traffic accidents are the cause of significant loss of human and economic resources worldwide. About 1.2 million people die and 50 million injured annually. lore than 85 percent of the casualties occur in low and ...
Unrestricted market access for sub-Saharan Africa: important benefits with little cost to the QUAD
(2005-03)
The issue of unrestricted market access for sub-Saharan Africa has featured lately in the debate on overcoming Africa’s development challenges through trade, rather than aid. This paper assesses empirically the impact of ...
Trade liberalization and development : lessons for Africa
(2004-09)
Th is paper argues that trade policies must be dynamic, adaptable, and
diff erentiated between sectors and between the various segments of a given
sector in order to contribute eff ectively to development eff orts. It ...
Can market access help African agriculture?
(2006-10)
This paper examines the implications for African economies of the possible outcomes from the ongoing agriculture negotiations in the Doha Round. The paper defines scenarios that capture key elements of the modalities ...
Gender dimensions of cross border trade in the East African community : Kenya/Uganda and Rwanda/Burundi border
(2009-10)
The main finding of the study is that informal cross border women traders across the region do not use available formal systems/structures for most of their transactions. This makes it difficult for regional trade policy ...
Technical co-operation trust fund agreement between the United Nations economic commission for Africa and the Austrian development agency (ADA)
(2006)
This paper is focuses on the technical co-operation trust fund agreement between the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the Austrian development agency (ADA). This Agreement is made and entered into on the ...
Fiscal implications of trade liberalization on African countries
(2004-09)
This paper explores measures that countries can take to off set or reduce the negative impacts of trade liberalization on
their fiscal positions with reference to empirical examples.
Trade liberalization under the Doha Development Agenda : options and consequences for Africa
(2004-08)
This study provides a quantitative estimate of the potential economic consequences of multilateral trade reform for Africa. It uses a framework that incorporates issues of particular concern to Africa, such as preference ...