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Africa must boost commodity based industrialization to grow economy and poverty says economic report on Africa 2013
(2013-03)
The Sixth Joint Annual Meetings of ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and AU Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance opened here with a call for a paradigm shift for ...
Efforts underway to improve transport in Tanzania
(2014-02)
Tanzania is a major gateway to the global economy for its landlocked neighbours of Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Malawi as well as for the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The efficiency of ...
Afrique-Chine: les IDE indispensables au renforcement des échanges
(2015-11)
Ce document est un communiqué de presse sur les femmes et les communautés rurales de l’Afrique australe les plus touchées par l’exclusion humaine. Selon le rapport de l’l'Indice de Développement Social de l'Afrique– IDSA, ...
African trade policy centre begins work again with a new regional focus
(2008-10)
The following press release was held in Addis Ababa, 31st October 2008. The second phase of the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC II) has been launched with programming missions to the Secretariats of the East African ...
Connecting to global value chains to boost intra-African trade
(2013-09)
“Aid for Trade, value chains and intra-African Trade” at the ongoing Global Review of Aid for Trade, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) today stressed the need for closer ...
Global leaders address aid, trade and the post-2015 development agenda
(2013-09)
In a panel discussion on the post-2015 development agenda at the 4th Global Review of Aid for Trade in Geneva, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr. Carlos Lopes has told Global leaders ...
Africa's Private Sector can partner on development
(2014-06)
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Carlos Lopes called on the private sector to adopt corporate social responsibility and advance the continent’s development. Speaking to private sector ...
African statistics day, 18 November; and African development information day, 19 November
(1994-11)
In this press release the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) invites all its member states to celebrate: African Statistics Day, in 18 November; and African Development Information Day, 19 November. These ...
Les institutions africaines appuient le Fonds Afrique50 pour soutenir le financement des infrastructures
(2013-07)
Dans une déclaration commune publiée le 19 juillet 2013 à Tunis en Tunisie, les institutions africaines ont apporté leur soutien au Fonds Afrique50 de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), la présentant comme le ...
CFTA negotiations intensify as deadline looms
(2017-11)
David Luke who coordinates the African Trade Policy Centre at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said that the month of November was characterized by a series of meetings by the CFTA Technical Working Groups, the ...