November 01, 2014
Africa: Boosting Crisis Response and Financing Key Forafrica's Continued Progress
Tackling vulnerabilities should be at the center of continent's development efforts Read more »
October 30, 2014
Guinea Bissau: Carlos Lopes Proposes Blueprint for Guinea Bissau Development and Economic Transformation
Guinea Bissau should take advantage of the stability and unanimity of its post-electoral period, which can now be translated into economic opportunities and possibilities, said… Read more »
Africa: African Economic Conference to Award Outstanding Scholarship
The ninth edition of the annual African Economic Conference (AEC) will be held from 1-3 November on the theme, "Knowledge and Innovation for Africa's Transformation" at the United… Read more »
October 22, 2014
Africa: Press Conference With UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim
Media Advisory Read more »
October 21, 2014
Africa: Africa's Current Wave of Industrialization Calls for New Approach
Lusaka, Zambia: 21 October -The current wave of industrialization taking place across the African continent will need a different approach from that of the last century. The focus… Read more »
Africa: ECA and UN Women to Host Civil Society Forum On Beijing +20 Progress
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN Women) will organize a civil society forum to review and appraise the… Read more »
October 16, 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: 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. In a plenary at the Africa… 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 »
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 »
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… Read more »
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: Innovative Financing a Must for Africa
A mythical figure of African history, the Moroccan Ibn Battuta, considered one of the greatest travelers of all times, arrived in Somalia in 1331. He was surprised with Mogadishu's… 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 »
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