Joint ECA-ADB Symposium “Capacity Development for Achieving the MDGs in Africa”: opening remarks By K.Y. Amoako executive secretary
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This opening remarks delivered by K.Y. Amoako Executive Secretary at the Joint ECA-ADB Symposium “Capacity Development for Achieving the MDGs in Africa”. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, this meeting is valuable opportunity for a fruitful dialogue that can provide input to our quest to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. Africa has collectively been taking steps to address these concerns particularly through the African Union and New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) framework, it is imperative that much more be done to address the constraints hindering our progress. The notion that Africa needs a major scaling up of public investment and that we need to build capacity is not new. Considerable resources have been channeled into the public sector over the years with the expectation that poverty will be reduced. Poor economic policies have constrained capacity building, both by discouraging public investment in critical areas of training and education and by reinforcing under-utilization of some existing capacities. Major cuts in public expenditure under the structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s and 90s also led to the loss of critical capacity.
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“Amoako, K.Y.; African Development Bank; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa.; African Development Bank (2005-05). Joint ECA-ADB Symposium “Capacity Development for Achieving the MDGs in Africa”: opening remarks By K.Y. Amoako executive secretary. UN. ECA Joint ECA-ADB Symposium (2005, May 15: Abuja, Nigeria). Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31160”Conference
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