Opening remarks by Mr Ferhat Lounes, vice president, African development bank : at the conference on accelerating trade and investment in Africa
![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/10855/31615/b10802873.pdf.jpg?sequence=4&isAllowed=y)
View
Download
Published
1997-05Author(s)/Corporate Author (s)
Lounes, Ferhat;United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa.;
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Opening Remarks by Mr. Ferhat Lounes Vice President, African Development Bank at the Conference on Accelerating Trade and Investment in Africa. Mr. Lounes, on his remarks highlighted that, It is high time that African countries go beyond the present state of crisis management and firefighting to the stage of visionary planning for long-term development. The process would need to be guided by the nation that comparative advantage is not static but dynamic and can be modified, made and acquired by visionary governments and private strategies. There are two main justifications for advocating this piecemeal approach. First, that the process of transformation through industrialization requires huge investment in infrastructure and other production-servicing (ac::i1ities chat many African countries may not be able to provide country-wide. The available meager resources can be devoted to the provision of these facilities within a small confined area, the EPZ. Second, the effective application of country-wide export incentives, such as exemption or tax rebate systems, requires a high level of technical and administrative capacity.
Citation
“Lounes, Ferhat; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (1997-05). Opening remarks by Mr Ferhat Lounes, vice president, African development bank : at the conference on accelerating trade and investment in Africa. UN. ECA Conference on Accelerating Trade and Investment in Africa (1997, May 5-8: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31615”Conference
UN. ECA Conference on Accelerating Trade and Investment in Africa (1997, May 5-8: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)Collections
- Africa Sustainable Development Report [5056]
- Africa UN staff news (1973) [5444]
- African Trade Policy Centre [2524]
- All Conferences [5813]
- Conferences on Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration [230]
- Rural Development Newsletter (1975) [1856]
- Speeches [1477]
- Statistical training programme for Africa (STPA) News (1987) [5918]
- Trade [2787]
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
Mission report : Capacity building workshop on gender trade policy and export promotion for East African region 25-29 July 2005 Arusha ,Tanzania
United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa
“Tadria, Hilda; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa (2005-07). Mission report : Capacity building workshop on gender trade policy and export promotion for East African region 25-29 July 2005 Arusha ,Tanzania. UN. ECA capacity building workshop on gender trade policy and export promotion for East African region (2005, Jul. 25 - 29): Arusha, Tanzania). Addis Ababa :. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/18663”
Strategies for revitalization, recovery and growth of Africa's trade in the 1990's and beyond
United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa
“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa (1990-12). Strategies for revitalization, recovery and growth of Africa's trade in the 1990's and beyond. UN. ECA Conference on African Ministers of Trade: Special Session (1990, Dec. 14 - 17 : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). Addis Ababa :. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/469”
Agreement relating to the privileges and immunities of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States
United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa
“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa (1982-11). Agreement relating to the privileges and immunities of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States. UN. ECA Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the PTA for Eastern and Southern African States (2nd : 1982, Dec. 9 - 15 : Lusaka, Zambia); UN. ECA Meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission of Experts of the PTA for Eastern and Southern African States (2nd : 1982, Dec. 9 - 15 : Lusaka, Zambia); UN. ECA Interim Secretariat of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States (PTA). Addis Ababa. © UN. ECA. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/8626”