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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 ...
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 ...
ECA-AfDB-OECD- latest "African Economic Outlook" report forecasts stronger regional economic growth in near future
(2008-05)
The Outlook examines the theme and concludes that technical and vocational systems in Africa remain influenced by multiple constraints that limit their expansion and impact. It observes that many programmes are not adapted ...
Top African performers named in latest economic report
(2003-07)
African countries that have made the most progress in putting in place the right policies to reduce poverty top the rankings in the latest Economic Report on Africa (ERA 2003), the annual Economic Commission for Africa ...
Commodity based industrialization is a must for Cameroon and other African countries economic report on Africa 2013
(2013-06)
This year’s Economic Report on Africa identifies inclusive growth and job creation as major challenges for the continent due to its perennial dependence on
the exportation of raw materials. Focusing on the theme “Making ...
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 ...