High level ILO conference opens on jobs, growth and social progress

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At the launch of the ECA-AU Economic Report on Africa 2013, in Central Africa, today, a college of university dons expressed their satisfaction at the quality and relevance of the document and said they were quite ready to support governments across Africa, and that of Cameroon in particular, to implement the recommendations of the Report. Launched at the University of Yaounde II, in Soa, Cameroon, the Report urges African countries to engage in commodity-based industrialization in order to accelerate the continent’s growth, solve its problems of unemployment and quicken its economic transformation. “The Economic Report on Africa 2013 is a formidable piece of research,” said Ms Marie Delaventure Amougou, who represented the Association of Employers (GICAM) to review the publication in the context of Cameroon. She said the country required huge investments to kick start real work in the manufacturing sector. The Central Africa launch of the Economic Report on Africa was attended by members of the Cameroon Government, members of the diplomatic community, researchers from academia, students and media professionals.