Couverture médiatique

La liste des 100 personnalités qui ont marqué l’Afrique en 2015 porte l’estampille de notre rédaction, des analystes et des consultants qui se sont relayés sur ces colonnes tout le long de l’année pour décrypter l’actualité.

Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, recently wrote an article entitled "The economic future is in Africa". In it, he details the strength of Africa's growth, recommending that "the levers of structural transformation" are to be found in Africa – rather than Europe, as many African countries remain dependent on European-focused...

MANY Africans will have been glad to see the back of 2015, as a continental economy that had been the toast suddenly slowed up, hurting livelihoods and leaving many previously optimistic plans in the balance.

This was the year African economies were poised to rise and invest some of their new-found capital in jobs and infrastructure. But the triple threat of climate change, falling oil prices and ethnic strife has left some heads of state scrambling for alternative ways to fund their ambitious plans.

Giving a historical background of human migration trends, Mr. Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, in his remarks to the 34th Session of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee, concluded saying finding the right policies and processes to transform migration into a win-win situation is the challenge ahead.

Since­ 2011, continued fall in the price of oil and natural gas, and, more recently other minerals, are threatening to turn tailwinds into headwinds for many extractive sectors in Nigeria and other African countries.

While Ethiopia was reliving the disasters of the 1983-85 famine, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11) started on November 30th, 2015 and concluded recently in Paris. In sum, COP21 aims to keep global warming below 2°C by achieving a new international agreement on the climate. For African countries, these talks has brought together the previous efforts to address...

The changing nature of employment, occupational patterns, phenomena of jobless growth, ageing and demographic shifts and automation and technology developments are creating exceptional levels of complexity, according to Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa.

If you’re an Africa analyst/observer who hasn’t read the recent Mail and Guardian interview with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary Carlos Lopes, you should. It’s enlightening, provocative, and seems to be informed by the much-heralded trope of recent years: “Africa Is Rising.”

L’Ethiopie sera la plus grande économie de l’Afrique en 2050, selon le Dr Carlos Lopes, Secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique (CEA).

Although it has been quite a few years now since Ethiopia started to receive rave reviews about its economic wonders from international organizations, media and non-state actors, the trend still feels fresh for Ethiopians as they had been plagued with negative reports for so long. The graphic images of Ethiopians dying of hunger broadcasted by Western media still haunt the county’s image in the...

Dr Carlos weighed prospects and challenges for Nigeria and South Africa — the current economic giants of Africa — with resource-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and fast-growing Ethiopia to reach to the conclusion that this Horn of Africa nation will come out as top performer in Africa by 2050.

Africa's stellar growth performance is real but somehow deceiving. It lies in tandem with pervasive poverty and unemployment and where two thirds of those actually employed are classed as working poor. This report argues that transforming African economies requires the development of well-integrated and effectively regulated financial sectors that will support the shift of employment from...

The top spot for Africa’s biggest economy by 2050 will go to Ethiopia, according to Dr Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

Dr Carlos weighed prospects and challenges for Nigeria and South Africa — the current economic giants of Africa — with resource-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and fast-growing Ethiopia to reach to the conclusion that this Horn of Africa nation will come out as top performer in Africa by 2050.

CARLOS Lopes is the executive secretary of the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). A development economist, author and educator, Lopes is from Guinea Bissau, and holds a PhD in history from the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne and a research master from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.