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ECA engages member states in Geneva ahead of aid for trade global review
(2013-07)
A lively discussion took place in London on the 1st of July after the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) launched the 2013 Economic Report on Africa (ERA). Diplomatic officials, entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics ...
L'industrialisation est un projet politique
(2015-03)
L’industrialisation est autant économique car elle est un projet politique et nécessite une pensée peu orthodoxe, les choix de politique difficile, l’innovation etla créativité. Parlant a` l’ouverture officielle de la 21e ...
ECA research reveals trade diversification taking root in Africa ECA
(2012-05)
At a two-day meeting of Experts discussing Metrology, Export Diversification and Intra-Industry Trade in Africa a senior UN official this week said, that there is increasing evidence that African countries are engaging in ...
Priorités de financement: consensus africain pour des objectifs de développement durable
(2015-03)
Le compte à rebours du Sommet pour le programme de développement post-2015 en septembre, a commencé à Addis-Abeba avec la réunion sur le financement du développement des régions africaines pour parvenir à une position ...
Capital flight from Africa
(2014-04)
Capital flight represents a higher burden in Africa than in other regions. Thus, actions to stop illicit capital flight must be taken by decision makers such as senior policy makers in both Africa and in the West if they ...
African regional review meeting on the almaty programme of action kicks off in Addis Ababa
(2013-07)
The African Regional Review Meeting on the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action kicked off this morning at the UN Conference Centre in Addis Ababa. The objectives of the 16-18 July 2013, among other things, are ...
Ghana hosts discussions on 2013 economic report on Africa, supports its recommendations
(2013-06)
A meeting organized by the National Development Planning Commission (NPDC) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) took place in Accra on June 4, this year, as part of a series of ongoing dissemination events on the ...
African negotiators say progress is finally being made on Rio+ 20 outcome statement
(2012-06)
Less than a day to the arrival of world leaders who are expected to consider and endorse the Rio+20 outcome document, the African Group of Negotiators here says it is finally making crucial progress on some testy areas of ...
ECA Supports Maghreb countries on Rules of Origin
(2015-12)
From 30 November to December 1st in Casablanca (Morocco), the Economic Commission for Africa (Office for North Africa) held a capacity-building workshop on rules of origin. Organised within the framework of ECA’s cooperation ...
Finance experts conduct landmark capital markets debate
(1997-04)
African Ministers of Finance, central bank governors and finance experts today conducted their first ever debate on capital markets developments at the Headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa ...