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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 ...
UNECA and Microsoft join forces to support economic growth and opportunity in Africa
(2010-01)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Microsoft announced the signing of a partnership agreement to promote development and foster regional cooperation in Africa by leveraging information and ...
Africa should listen and operationalise the economic report on Africa
(2013-05)
Experts attending the Kigali launch of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA) urged African countries to put into operation, individually and collectively, policy recommendations of the 2013 edition of the report. The report, ...
African Economic Conference Ends in Tunis with Calls for Internal Resource Mobilization
(2010-10)
The fifth African Economic Conference designed to bring policy-makers, researchers, academics and development experts ended on Friday, October 29, 2010, after intense discussions on key development issues facing the ...
Africa 2.0: harnessing natural resource wealth for economic transformation
(2013-09)
The forum will discuss the need to create opportunities for sustainable employment and wealth creation and the need for Africa to make the most of its natural resources. In this regard, concentrating on the sectors that ...
Finance minister Okonjo-Iweala to launch Africa economic report
(2013-07)
“The report is based on nine studies of African countries, which have helped to generate evidence-based policy recommendations. The policy framework offered underscores, inter alia , the importance of designing and ...
Expert dialogue to focus on youth as vehicle for economic growth
(2017-03)
The meeting, which takes place during the 2017 edition of African Development Week, presents an opportunity for the United Nations and African Union to dialogue on ways of advancing Africa's development agenda, as explained ...
Industrialisation can sustain Africa's recent economic growth experts
(2013-03)
A meeting of technical experts kicked off this week, calling for accelerated industrialization, as "one of the surest ways of ensuring the sustainability of the continent’s recent economic growth." The three-day technical ...
Experts discussion the development state and underscore its role in the socio-economic transformation of the continent
(2013-02)
The state is expected not only to facilitate a conducive environment for private enterprise to thrive, but to guide, regulate and create direction for both the economy and society in other words, shepherding the development ...