Africa: Lawmakers Benefit From Training in Natural Resource Policy and Contract Negotiations

The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) and the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) recently jointly… Read more »

Africa: Twenty African Officials Benefit From Trade Policy Analysis Course

In its quest to help Africa deal with challenges it is facing regarding trade policy issues, the African Centre for Trade Policy (ATCP) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA,… Read more »

Africa: Expert Group Meeting On the Economic Report On Africa 2017

The external peer review meeting for ERA 2017 was held on 15-16 December 2017 at the UNCC. Read more »

Africa: External Peer Review Meeting On the Economic Report On Africa 2017

The external peer review meeting for ERA 2017 was held on 15-16 December 2017 at the UNCC. Read more »

Africa: Canada's Progressive Trade Agenda Starts in Africa

The arrival of President-elect Donald Trump threw the Liberal Government's trade strategy off balance. The recent reshuffling of Cabinet and the now laser-like focus on the United… Read more »

Africa: Inception Meeting for the 2018 Economic Report On Africa

The ECA will hold an Inception Meeting on the preparation for the 2018 edition of the Economic Report on Africa which will take place in Conference Room 3 on 13 January 2017 from… Read more »

East Africa: The Indian Ocean Commission Endorses the Handbook On the Blue Economy Published By the ECA

Kigali, 23 December (ECA) - In the Agenda 2063 of the African Union, it is asserted that the "blue-world" should be major contributors to the transformation and growth of the… Read more »

Africa: Experts Discuss Land Governance to Increase Agricultural Investment

Land in Africa has become the safest asset for those with spare funds to invest. With its growing population, Rwanda, like many other countries on the continent, has also been… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Agricultural Production Systems Need a Radical Change - ECA's Karingi

"Regardless of the approach or transformative pathway chosen to change food systems and trade regimes, African countries need to undertake radical change in agricultural production… Read more »

Africa: IDEP Trains Policymakers in Gender-Responsive Economic Policy Formulation

Dakar, Senegal, December 15 (IDEP) - The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning recently organized a course for senior and mid-level African policymakers to equip… Read more »

Africa: Ad-Hoc Expert Group Meeting for the Study On Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting in Africa - Reforms to Facilitate Improved Taxation of Multinational Corporations

On 14th December 2016, the Macroeconomic Policy Division hosted an Ad-Hoc Expert Group Meeting to review the study on "Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting in Africa: Reforms to… Read more »

Africa: Experts Held Discussions On Entrepreneurship in Africa

On 13 December 2016, the Finance and Private Sector Section of the Macroeconomic policy Division of UNECA organized an Experts Group Meeting at UNCC in Addis Ababa Ethiopia to… Read more »

Africa: How Policy Implementation Can Drive Africa's Agro-Allied Industry

Implementation of existing policies and strategies by African countries are essential to develop Africa's agro-allied industry, Ayodele Odusola, Chief Economist and Head of the… Read more »

Africa: Policy Convergence Can Catalyse Central Africa's Transport Interconnection

Brazzaville, 15 Dec. 2016 (ECA) - Central Africa's transport interconnection problems are not a result of lack of expertise across countries but rather a manifestation of… Read more »

Africa: ECA and NEPAD Launch an Investors' Guide for Infrastructures in Africa

International experts, ambassadors, high officials and entrepreneurs gathered today in Dakar for the launch of "16 infrastructure projects for African integration". Read more »

Africa: African Least Developed Countries Need Greater 'Momentum' to Graduate From LDC Status

Kigali 15 December (ECA)- After several years of resilience following the global financial crisis, economic growth in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) has declined sharply… Read more »

Africa: Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin Addresses Issues of Globalization and Inequality

On Day 1 of the 11th African Economic Conference in Abuja, Nigeria, Prof. Eric Maskin of Harvard University and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in economics made a short… Read more »

Africa: Dakar to Host the 2017 Joint ECA-AU Annual Ministerial Conference

Preparations are underway for the joint Annual Ministerial Conference of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) to be held in Dakar,… Read more »

Africa: Is There a Future for Smallholder Farmers in Africa?

Participants at the 2016 African Economic Conference think there is future for smallholder farmers on the continent. They think African countries can use build upon the Green… Read more »

Africa: ECA and ECCAS Deepen Collaboration

Libreville, Gabon, 14 Dec. 2016 (ECA) - The Secretariat General of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), through… Read more »

Africa: Mining and Development in Central Africa - Much Still to Be Done

Brazzaville, 14 Dec. 2016 (ECA) - In spite of the efforts deployed by countries in Central Africa to incorporate the objectives of the African Mining Vision (AMV) into national… Read more »

Africa: Senegal, ECA and NEPAD to Launch Infrastructure Investment Tool in Dakar

A global tool designed to increase private sector investment in Africa's transboundary infrastructure will be unveiled in Dakar on 15 December at the King Fahd Hotel. Read more »

Africa: ECA to Host Open Data Session At First UN World Data Forum in Cape Town

The Economic Commission for Africa is organising an Open Data side event at the first ever United Nations World Data Forum, that will be held in South Africa in January, to help… Read more »

Africa: Africa Trade Week 2016 Theme: Continental Free Trade Area and Trade Facilitation

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Africa: Towards an Inclusive-Development-Generating Mining Industry in Central Africa

Brazzaville, 10 Dec. 2016 (ECA) - The Sub-Regional Office for Central Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has convened mining development experts of… Read more »