October 08, 2015
Africa: Praia - Actors From All Horizons and All Capacities Reflect On Trade
After Dakar in June 2015, the ECA chose the Cape Verde peninsula for a new launching of the 2015 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA) in the ECOWAS region. This report… Read more »
October 16, 2014
Cape Verde: 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 »
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 »
September 03, 2014
Africa: The Paradox of Africa's Small Island Developing Nations
I was born in Canchungo, in the northwestern part of Guinea-Bissau. Images of a beautiful canvas of green landscape crisscrossed by abundant waterways, thick forest, vast expanses… Read more »
September 02, 2014
Africa: Changing Tides in African Small Islands - the Case of Cabo Verde and Guinea Bissau
Amidst all the hustle and bustle of the UN Small Island Developing States conference on 1st and 4th of September, the efforts by African SIDS to address climate change can serve as… Read more »
May 20, 2014
Africa: ECA's Executive Secretary Pays Official Visit to Cape Verde
The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa paid an official visit to Cape Verde at the invitation of the Prime-Minister of the country, José Maria… Read more »
May 09, 2014
Cape Verde: Cape Verde's National Transformation Forum
Preparations are in high gear towards Cape Verde's second National Forum on Transformation which holds from 14-16 May on a "constructive review of the progress and plan for the… Read more »
April 05, 2014
Cape Verde: Cape Verde to Host 2nd National Forum On Transformation
A decade after the first National Transformation Forum that was held in 2003, the Cape Verde Centre for Strategic Policies in collaboration with partners such as the Economic… Read more »
November 01, 2013
Africa: Small Is Beautiful - African Small Island Development States and Climate Change
Of the world's fifty-two Small Island Developing States (SIDS), six are in Africa. They include; Cape Verde, Comoros, Guinea Bissau, Mauritius, São Tomé and… Read more »
July 09, 2013
Cape Verde: Nation's Development Trajectory Stands Out At Aid for Trade Global Review
In his remarks at a Round Table focusing on Cape Verde's economic success story, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Mr. Carlos Lopes, lauded the… Read more »