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 »

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 »

Africa: ECA and Codesria Sign Collaboration Agreement

Addis Ababa/Dakar 08 October 2014 Read more »

Africa: Inauguration of New Office Facility in Addis Ababa Signifies a More Innovative UN

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Economic Commission for Africa's Carlos Lopes have hailed the opening of a new office in the ECA compound in Addis Ababa as a… Read more »

East Africa: United Nations and the World Bank Horn of Africa Initiative Set to Boost Economic Efforts in East Africa

The United Nations and the World Bank are joining forces with regional financial institutions African Union (AU), African Development Bank (AfDB), Islamic Development Bank (IDB)… Read more »

Africa: Marrakech Consensus Calls for Greater Partnership Between the Private and Public Sector to Accelerate Africa's Transformation

: Over 900 stakeholders from across the African continent, including the Presidents of Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal, as well as the Prime Ministers of Morocco and Cape Verde convened… Read more »

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 »

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 »

Africa: Carlos Lopes to Visit Ebola-Affected Countries

Amidst the ongoing global efforts to respond to the Ebola crisis, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Carlos Lopes has joined the Chairperson of… Read more »

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 »

Africa: Monitoring and Evaluation in Land Policy - Harmonization a Must

The Land Policy Initiative (LPI) will organize an Experts' Group Meeting (EGM) to lay the ground for piloting the LPI Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework. The EGM will… Read more »

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 »

Africa: Rescuing Africa's Agriculture

Close to 500 policy makers, academics, practitioners and other stakeholders from the agriculture and climate change sectors will gather on 8 October in Marrakesh, Morocco, in a bid… Read more »

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 »

Africa: Joint Global Survey to Shed Light On Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade

The five United Nations Regional Commissions (UNRC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have recently launched a global survey to collect relevant… Read more »

Africa: Join Climdev-Africa Annual Conference in Morocco

The 4th edition of the Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-IV) will be held in Marrakech, Morocco from October 8 to 10 on the theme: "Africa can feed… Read more »

Africa: African Economic Conference Relocates to Addis Ababa

In keeping with the tradition established by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)… Read more »

Africa: Launch of the Economic Report On Africa in Abidjan

To ensure that growth is both sustainable and beneficial to all strata of society in Africa, countries on the continent, including Cote d'Ivoire, must adopt industrial policies… Read more »

Africa: Can Africa Move Away from Aid to Trade? Carlos Lopes Answers

What should it do to attract more private equity and how can it convert the illicit financial flows to funds for domestic resource mobilization, climate change and conflict… Read more »

West Africa: Ebola: Lessons Unlearned

When in March this year Guinean authorities reported the first positive tests for Ebola in the West African region, the news came as a surprise for scientists and were treated… Read more »