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The African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF), a dedicated renewable energy fund focused on Sub-Saharan Africa closed last week with US $100 million of committed capital to support small- to medium-scale independent power producers (IPPs).

In 2011, the rate of return on inward FDI in Africa (9.3 per cent) was the highest compared with other regions of the world. Africa is therefore slowly but surely shedding its image as the poster child of poverty and destitution to being the new place for investors to be.

Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of UNECA, summarises key messages arising from Africa-wide consultations aiming to articulate an African common position on the post-2015 development agenda.

The economic weight of Southern actors at the global level over the last two decades has been unprecedented in speed and scale. Whilst growth levels of western economies plummeted following the 2008-2009 financial crisis, developing economies continued to grow at high rates, largely driven by a variety of factors, including sound industrial policies and investments in human, physical and...

O desempenho da economia africana durante a última década foi extraordinário, alcançando a média de crescimento de 5%. Se esse índice for mantido, projeções indicam que o PIB da África deverá aumentar aproximadamente três vezes até 2030 e sete vezes até 2050, superando o PIB da Ásia. Entretanto, os índices positivos não tem afetado como esperado a criação de empregos e o combate a desigualdades.

Africa’s economic performance over the last decade has been remarkable, having reached an average growth of 5%. If this growth is maintained, projections indicate Africa’s GDP should increase approximately threefold by 2030 and sevenfold by 2050, outstripping Asia’s. Yet this growth has not translated to creating jobs or tackling inequalities.

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Carlos Lopes, has identified four key challenges that Africa needed to address when negotiations begin on the new global development agenda. Speaking at the African Union High Level Committee (HLC) of Heads of State and Governments on the Post 2015 Development Agenda held a meeting on Friday in Ndjamena, Chad, Lopes emphasized...

3 March 2014: The African Union (AU) High Level Committee of Heads of State and Governments on the Post-2015 Development Agenda has launched the Common African Position (CAP) and adopted the N'Djamena Declaration on the CAP. The launch took place on 28 February 2014, in Ndjamena, Chad, following adoption of the CAP by the AU Heads of States and Government on 31 January 2014.

VENTURES AFRICA – With carefully developed backward and forward linkages, industrialization has the potential to diversify economies and reduce exposure to external shocks. Considering South Africa as an example – can we say that the country has backward and forward linkages to offset shocks? Not at all!

Lors de leur sommet à Kinshasa, les chefs d’État et de gouvernement des pays du Marché commun de l’Afrique de l’Est et australe et leurs représentants ont reconnu l’importance des ressources naturelles comme point d’ancrage pour la transformation économique et sociale de la vie de leurs populations. En conséquence, les dirigeants, qui se rencontrent du 26 au 27 février, soulignent l’importance...

AFRICA’S need to aggressively pursue the industrialisation path has become more compelling in light of the need to sustain current growth standards.

Africa’s need to aggressively pursue the industrialisation path has become more compelling in light of the need to sustain current growth standards. With carefully developed backward and forward linkages, industrialisation has the potential to diversify economies and reduce exposure to external shocks.

Africa’s economic performance over the last decade has been remarkable, having reached an average growth of 5%. If this growth is maintained, projections indicate Africa’s GDP should increase approximately threefold by 2030 and sevenfold by 2050, outstripping Asia’s. Yet this growth has not translated to creating jobs or tackling inequalities.

Africa’s economic performance over the last decade has been remarkable, having reached an average growth of 5%. If this growth is maintained, projections indicate Africa’s GDP should increase approximately threefold by 2030 and sevenfold by 2050, outstripping Asia’s. Yet this growth has not translated to creating jobs or tackling inequalities. - See more at: http://www.un.org/africarenewal/...

La Commission économique pour l'Afrique (Cea) de l'Onu entend distribuer les bons et mauvais points en matière d’intégration régionale sur le continent. Elle prépare, à cet effet, un nouvel indice permettant de mesurer les progrès réalisés par les pays africains en matière d'intégration économique régionale.

Africa — Africa's economic performance over the last decade has been remarkable, having reached an average growth of 5%. If this growth is maintained, projections indicate Africa's GDP should increase approximately threefold by 2030 and sevenfold by 2050, outstripping Asia's. Yet this growth has not translated to creating jobs or tackling inequalities.

“Grappling with goals for sustainable development is not only a demanding task but also a big challenge. Sustainable development seeks to achieve social and economic progress in ways that will not exhaust the earth’s natural resources. The world’s resources are finite, and growth that is unmanaged and un-sustained will lead to deteriorating conditions for all. We owe it to future generations...

Yaounde — Cameroon can completely overturn its economic fortunes if it could get out of the grip of fish and energy oil importation, UN Under-Secretary General and ECA Executive Secretary Carlos Lopes has told the country's Prime Minister - Philemon Yang.

Grappling with goals for sustainable development is not only a demanding task but also a big challenge. Sustainable development seeks to achieve social and economic progress in ways that will not exhaust the earth's natural resources. The world's resources are finite, and growth that is unmanaged and un-sustained will lead to deteriorating conditions for all. _We owe it to future...

Yaounde, 15 Feb 2014 (ECA) - "Africa's story told to the rest of the world is one of risks and conflict but a lot of people don't know that at this time conflicts account for 5 million deaths in Africa, but they account for 200 million deaths in Asia," Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, told journalist in Cameroon as he ended his first...