October 05, 2014
Africa: Africa Must Generate Resources From Within Its Economies
Africa is growing at a steady rate and is on the path to sustainable long-term growth, opening up a number of investment opportunities. In fact, one-third of Africa's countries… Read more »
Africa: Africa Will Be Trading Predominantly With Partners Form the South By 2020
Prior the economic crisis, Africa's share of trade with other emerging markets was a mere 30%. Today that has gone up to nearer 50%, and by 2020, on current trends that could be as… Read more »
Africa: Eca Launches Innovative Tool to Boost Assessment of Inclusive Development in Africa
African nations will be able to better assess the impact of social policies on human exclusion - following the launch of an innovative tool, the African Social Development Index… Read more »
Africa: Private Equity and the Growth of Pension Funds Provide a Massive Opportunity to Finance Investment
Africa may be flavour of the month but in relative terms still attracts a small percentage of Private Equity and international investment capital. Read more »
October 15, 2014
Cote d'Ivoire: Côte d'Ivoire Looks to PPPs for Development
Public-private partnerships are a pillar of the West African country's resurgence, says President Alassane Ouattara. Read more »
Africa: Duarte - Focus On Institutions for Development
Governance and institutional reform are central to Africa's solutions to asset flight and inequality, says Cabo Verde's finance minister. Read more »
Africa: Tracking Africa's Stolen Billions
Illicit financial flows are a major drain on Africa's resources for development. International coordination is needed to slow the flow of stolen assets. Read more »
Morocco: Morocco Calls for African Solidarity and Progress
ADF's host government urges a new development approach for a new, emerging Africa Read more »
Africa: Private Equity Looks to African Investors
Africa's pension funds hold billions of dollars which could be invested for job creation and economic development. Read more »
Africa: Lopes: Africa Needs a New Aid Paradigm
The Executive Secretary of UNECA says that African governments need to find common negotiating positions ahead of a critical year for development assistance. Read more »
October 14, 2014
Africa: Presidents of Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Prime Ministers of Cape Verde, and Morocco Attend the Ninth African Development Forum
Raising private equity, illicit financial flows, domestic resource mobilisation, new partnerships and climate financing in Africa at the top of the agenda at this year's flagship… Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Presidents of Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Prime Ministers of Cape Verde, and Morocco attend the Ninth African Development Forum
Raising private equity, illicit financial flows, domestic resource mobilisation, new partnerships and climate financing in Africa at the top of the agenda at this year's flagship… Read more »
Africa: Ninth African Development Forum (ADF IX) Statement by Carlos Lopes, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA
Excellency, Mr. Abdelilah Benkirane, representing our host country, the Kingdom of Morocco, Read more »
Africa: Small Nations should Unite for a Climate Revolution
No nation is immune to the impact of climate change but it is the world's poorest that will be hit the hardest. A fair and inclusive global agreement to combat climate change is a… Read more »
October 10, 2014
Africa: Africa Welcomes Low Carbon Financing Coalition
Governments, global business communities, finance institutions, and civil society organizations have formed a coalition that will see them mobilize approximately $200 billion for… Read more »
Africa: ECA Boss Carlos Lopes Receives the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize
Economic Commission for Africa's Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize (LAAP) by the Millennium Excellence Foundation… Read more »
October 09, 2014
Africa: With Smart Agriculture, Africa Can Feed Africa
The Fourth annual Conference on Cli-mate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-IV) opened here in Marrakech, Morocco yesterday with a strong focus on how the continent can feed… Read more »
Africa: Africa Is Ready for Green Climate Fund
Africa is fully prepared to receive funds to finance projects aimed at increasing climate resilience capacity on the conti-nent, an official from the Economic Commis-sion for… Read more »
October 10, 2014
Africa: ECA Welcomes the Rebasing of the Kenyan Economy
In the wake of the recent rebasing of estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) by Ghana and Nigeria, Kenya is now the latest African country to rebase its national accounts data. Read more »
October 09, 2014
Africa: ECA and Codesria Sign Collaboration Agreement
Addis Ababa/Dakar 08 October 2014 Read more »
October 01, 2014
Africa: Unprecedented Support to Capacity Development for Land Governance in Africa
The Land Policy Initiative (LPI), the World Bank, and the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) agreed to collaborate in launching a five-year project,… Read more »
October 06, 2014
Africa: High Level Delegations Expected in Marrakech for the African Development Forum
This year, the Forum is to focus on illicit financial flows, domestic resource mobilisation, new forms of partnerships and climate financing Read more »
Africa: Towards a Research Roadmap On Climate Change in Africa
A group of African climate research and impact communities began meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, today to agree a research collaboration platform on climate science in Africa that… Read more »
October 02, 2014
Africa: Industrialisation Is an Obligation for Africa - Ivorian Prime Minister
"I am particularly impressed by the pertinence of the recommendations of the Economic Report on Africa 2014, which totally reflect the objectives of our reform process, especially… Read more »
October 01, 2014
Africa: One Thing Leads to Another - Promoting Industrialisation By Making the Most of the Commodity Boom in Sub-Saharan Africa
This is a book review done by Antonio M. A. Pedro, Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA), It was Published… Read more »