February 09, 2017
Africa: Statisticians Benefit From Population Projections Training
The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) recently hosted a regional workshop on population projections benefiting 16 statisticians from national… Read more »
January 30, 2017
Africa: Idep Leads Dialogue On Youth Employment and the Demographic Dividend in Africa
The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), in collaboration with the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs… Read more »
February 05, 2017
Africa: Tackling Illicit Financial Flows - Can Africa Rise to the Challenge?
At this year's Africa Mining Vision day, some of Africa's most influential mining industry leaders and government counterparts debated strategies to counter Illicit Financial Flows… Read more »
February 06, 2017
Africa: ECA and AfDB Ploughing Together for Central Africa's Development
A higher degree of experience sharing among development partners would make a huge difference in technically supporting the economies of Central Africa at these trying but… Read more »
February 03, 2017
Cote d'Ivoire: Development Planning - The ECA Lends Its Support to Côte d'Ivoire
On February 20th in Abidjan, the Ministry of Planning and Development (MPD) of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, in collaboration with the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of… Read more »
Africa: ECA's Deputy Executive Secretary Meets Estonian Ambassador to Explore ICT Cooperation
Economic Commission for Africa's Deputy Executive Secretary for Knowledge Delivery Giovanie Biha recently met with Estonia's Ambassador to Egypt and Ethiopia, Mr. Sander Soone, to… Read more »
January 06, 2017
Africa: African Governments Urged to Repeal Discriminatory Laws Against Women
The Africa Ministerial Pre-Consultative Meeting on the 61st Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 61st) on the theme "Women's economic empowerment in the changing world of work"… Read more »
January 25, 2017
Africa: The IFF Consortium
The Consortium of stakeholders serves as a coordinating mechanism to oversee the implementation of the recommendations of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows. Read more »
January 24, 2017
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 »
January 22, 2017
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 »
January 09, 2017
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 »
December 23, 2016
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 »
December 21, 2016
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 »
December 09, 2016
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 »
December 20, 2016
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 »
December 04, 2016
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 »
December 03, 2016
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 »
December 09, 2016
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 »
December 16, 2016
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 »
December 05, 2016
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 »
December 15, 2016
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 »
December 09, 2016
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 »