Amidst the new sense of optimism found in Africa’s new natural resources discoveries, rapid urbanisation and increased regional integration, the tripartite partnership of the African Development Bank (AfDB), African Union ...

The Economic Commission for Africa says intracontinental trade presents a great opportunity for the continent to improve its industrialization drive. Africa should start developing and strengthening its regional value ...

The third African Development Forum (ADF 2001) organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), under the theme "Defining Priorities for Regional Integration". This year's theme was chosen in light of the coming into ...

Ministers and senior officials from over 40 African countries, the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) will convene at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa next week to deliberate ...

The 2013 Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa (MRDE) report jointly prepared by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is now ...

The Least Developing Countries conference organised by UNIDO and hosted by the Government of Peru opened today 30 November 2013 in Lima under the theme “From the Istanbul programme of action to the world we want in 2015 ...

Nigeria, which signed the landmark African Continental Free Trade Agreement in July, is this weekhosting its national AfCFTA Forum on the "Effective Implementation of the AfCFTA for Industrialization and Inclusive Economic ...

Leading Africans are to meet to brainstorm on an input to the upcoming Tokyo Conference on African Development (TICAD II), due to be held in Japan in October or November 1998. The gathering of leading African policymakers, ...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was a hot topic of discussion. Acting Director of the Office for Eastern Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr Andrew Mold gave a Keynote presentation ...

The Assessing Regional Integration in Africa has been published jointly by the ECA and African Union Commission every two years since 2004. The 2008 report that is to be promoted in Ghana is on the theme, “Towards Monetary ...