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Tunisia: Tunisia - Migrants Can Help Finance Development in Their Home Countries
UNECA, 20 April 2015
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) office for North Africa will organize, in partnership with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)… Read more »
Migrants Can Help Finance Development in Their Home Countries
Migrants' countries of origin are conscious of this phenomenon and attempt to mobilize diaspora savings and fund transfers in support to development and productive investments through various means, including improving national strategies aimed at Diasporas, facilitating fund transfers, increasing investment and placement opportunities and supporting the study of workers' remittances.
A World Food Programme (WFP) staff member loads bags of split yellow peas into a truck in a WFP warehouse based in El Fasher, North Darfur, for delivery and distribution at camps for displaced persons (IDPs) in Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur.
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Africa: North African Experts Discuss Financing of Regional Development
UNECA, 2 March 2015
More than 150 specialists, government representatives, business representatives and civil society activists from seven North African countries will gather in Morocco from 3 to 6… Read more »
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Africa: New Development Financing Models for Africa - A Look Back at ADF9
allAfrica, 4 November 2014
If Africa's growth and dynamism is to be sustained, the continent's ability to finance future infrastructure development cannot be left to vagaries of foreign aid allocations but… Read more »
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Africa: UNECA Advocates Industrialisation Through Trade in Africa
This Day, 16 April 2015
The United Nations' Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), has launched the 2015 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA), titled 'Industrialising through Trade'. Read more »
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With Africa enjoying an average growth rate of about 4% in 2013, compared with 3% for the global economy, as well as high rates of return for investors, the continent is attracting ... Read more »
