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ECA and UNCTAD course highlighted key issues on international economic agenda
(2009-02)
Better understanding of the infrastructure necessary to foster competitiveness and the relevance of transportation to trade and key issues in international trade negotiations and regionalism were the focus of the United ...
Cameroon's thumbs up for ECA's social and economic analyses on Africa
(2014-07)
The Economic Report on Africa 2014 was launched in Yaounde by the country’s Minister Delegate in the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development. The report calls for the adoption by African states of ...
New ECA report on monetary and financial integration in Africa finds serious obstacles on the road to macroeconomic convergence
(2008-11)
In the midst of the most serious global financial crisis in a century, a new report on monetary and financial integration in Africa will be released on 21 November by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) ...
Ghana hosts discussions on 2013 economic report on Africa, supports its recommendations
(2013-06)
A meeting organized by the National Development Planning Commission (NPDC) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) took place in Accra on June 4, this year, as part of a series of ongoing dissemination events on the ...
African Information Society Initiative (AISI) meetings
(1997-10)
The African Information Society Initiative (AISI) will be the focus of two major meetings scheduled to take place at the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) next week. The first meeting, to run from 20-21 October, ...
African Ministers of Finance and Economic Development commit to placing Agriculture at the core of growth policies
(2010-03)
In the framework of the General Assembly Resolution 57/7, which recommends that NEPAD be the framework within which UN agencies support Africa’s development, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa ...
Africa poverty on decline, progress in basic education, reveals a new report on the MDGs
(2012-06)
Africa has made significant progress in poverty reduction, primary education, women’s empowerment and in its fight against HIV/AIDS, according to a new report to be released July 15 by the United Nations Economic Commission ...
Uruguay round revisited, African economic integration reviewed
(1995-02)
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) weighs in with much the same evidence. "In certain product categories, e.g. cocoa and coffee the erosion of preferences could be as high as 100%; minerals and ...
Third edition of the African Economic Outlook focuses on aid and Public Resource Mobilisation
(2010-07)
The African Economic Outlook has become a widely acclaimed annual report on African economies. AEO is the only recurrent report on Africa that provides country-by-country analysis of recent political, economic and social ...
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 ...