The multilateral trading system embodied in the World Trade Organization has contributed significantly to economic growth, development and employment throughout the past fifty years, particularly in the light of the global ...

This background paper following a desk study by the African Centre for Women (ACW) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) aims to spark policy debate on gender dimensions of the relationship between national budgetary ...

This paper focuses on African development forum III defining priorities for regional integration. Africa's regional integration efforts have been hampered by many factors, including the failure to achieve economic ...

This Issues Paper is intended to identify some of the principal issues surrounding African regional economic integration and the African Union. Economic integration in Africa is an imperative if the continent is to achieve ...

This document presents a ECA Policy research report on Public Expenditure and Service Delivery in Africa, and Perspectives on Policy and Institutional Framework, that took place in Addis Ababa 2007.

After fi fty years of very signifi cant progress, the future of the multilateral system of trade negotiations is currently surrounded by great uncertainty. Th e collapse of the Cancun World Trade Organization (WTO) ...

The third edition of the Compendium of Intra-African and Related Foreign Trade Statistics is a combined edition of two former publications: Foreign Trade Statistics for Africa, series A: Direction of trade; and Foreign ...

Dans un environnement caractérisé par une croissance rapide, la libéralisation et la concurrence, la plupart des pays dans le monde aspire à améliorer leur situation économique en signant des accords avec ...

This document focused on fiscal policy and growth in Africa: fiscal federalism, decentralization and the incidence of taxation.