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The African Development Week in Addis Ababa took place within the framework of a high-level ministerial dialogue chaired by Mr. Carlos Lopes - Executive Secretary of the ECA, with participants including Mrs. Zaineb Shasuna-Ahmed - Nigeria's Minister of State for the Budget and Planning, Mr. Maged Abdelaziz - Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Special Adviser for Africa, and Mr...

The Munich Security Conference (MSC) is convening its first event on the African continent as part of its MSC Core Group Meeting series. The meeting, which is expected to attract the attendance of several high level officials, is opening this afternoon at the Sheraton Hotel here in Addis Abeba.

Transformation will not happen spontaneously, but rather as a result of deliberate and coherent policies that are entrenched into a harmonized development strategy and enlightened by transformational leadership says Dr. Carlos Lopes.

This weekend, Ethiopia will host the 5th Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa and here are 5 key things you should know about this policy dialogue

In Africa, transformation will not happen spontaneously, but rather as a result of deliberate and coherent policies that are entrenched into a harmonised development strategy and enlightened by transformational leadership.

Le patron de la Commission économique des Nations-Unies pour l’Afrique (CEA) fait le bilan de la Semaine du développement africain. Dans cet entretien exclusif avec Les Inspirations Éco, Carlos Lopes appelle également les pays de l’Afrique du Nord à concrétiser leur intégration régionale. Interrogé sur la présence marocaine en Afrique, le secrétaire exécutif de la CEA répond qu’elle est promue à...

Les préjugés ont la vie dure, surtout lorsqu’il s’agit de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) ! Ainsi, les observateurs qui se disent avertis savent-ils que mon pays arrive en 5e position parmi ceux dont le produit intérieur brut par habitant a le plus progressé au monde depuis 2010, avec une avancée de plus de 20 % ?

Welcoming the launch of the latest economic report on Africa, a senior United Nations official today highlighted that African countries should leapfrog “business as usual,” carbon intensive methods of growth and instead pursue a pathway to green industrialization.

UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr. Carlos Lopes (left), former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Ms. Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma, during one of the experts meeting at the African Development Week, which ended in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on April 5, 2016.

Hon. Calle Schlettwein (middle), the Minister of Finance paid a courtesy call on Dr Carlos Lopes (right), the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( UNECA).

‘Change of mindset”. This is what drove the intense week of discussions by African financial and economic leaders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week. During Africa Development Week, jointly organised by the AU and the EU, suggestions on how the two agencies could achieve their goals were put on the table.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Haile Mariam Desalegn, has declared that the future of Africa rests in its own hands. Reflecting on harmonising and coordinating different policies of the Sustainable Development Goals and Africa’s own Agenda 2063, Mr. Desalegn urged African states to be “strategic, ambitious, rigorous and disciplined” if they are to achieve sustainable and inclusive development for...

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has charged African countries to improve the skills of the youth in their respective countries in science and engineering.

« La transformation ne se fera pas sans une volonté de changement et des politiques cohérentes dans le cadre d'une stratégie de développement harmonisée », a souligné Carlos Lopes, secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique pour l'Afrique.

Zimbabwe needs predictability to be able to attract investors, UN under-secretary-general and Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) executive secretary Carlos Lopes has said.

Africa’s tertiary education and research sector is not ready for global competitiveness and innovation as only 4% of new innovations on the continent are based on research and development, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa or ECA, the African Union and the African Development Bank. They propose drawing lessons from India.

« La transformation ne se fera pas sans une volonté de changement et des politiques cohérentes dans le cadre d'une stratégie de développement harmonisée », a souligné Carlos Lopes, secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique pour l'Afrique.

According to Dr Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the continent needs to adopt the “development state” model currently seen in Ethiopia and Rwanda, “which have been central to the process of accelerated economic growth and transformation of any country”.

Africa’s tertiary education and research sector is not ready for global competitiveness and innovation as only 4% of new innovations on the continent are based on research and development, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa or ECA, the African Union and the African Development Bank. They propose drawing lessons from India.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) says Africa continues to be highly exposed to volatility and trade shocks as a result of its dependency on imports and resilience on commodity and natural export resources with a small number of buyers in the international market.