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This year Africa celebrates fifty years since the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU); never before has the continent been so poised to reap the benefit of its enormous resources. Sweeping political and economic changes over half a century have reformed global power structures, reconfigured international relations and led to serious rethinking of development paradigms.

The African Regional Conference on Population and Development Beyond 2014, attended by 52 countries, was held from September 30 - October 4. 2013 at the United Nations Conference Centre, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia around the theme "Harnessing the Demographic Dividend: The future we want for Africa." Organised in partnership with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic...

According to Carlos Lopes, writing in Allfrica.com: “The African Mining Vision jointly developed by the African Union, African Development Bank and other United Nations agencies and adopted by the African Union Heads of State in 2009 advocates for ‘transparent, equitable and optimal exploitation of mineral resources to underpin broad-based sustainable growth and socio-economic development’.

Quotes From Carlos Lopes (UN Eighth Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa)

Dr Maxwell Mkwezalamba is one accomplished Malawian economist who has held several portfolios both locally and internationally.

O chefe da Organização de Desenvolvimento Industrial das Nações Unidas (UNIDO) salientou que o forte foco da agência na industrialização inclusiva e sustentável pode ajudar a apoiar os esforços do continente para alcançar um crescimento e desenvolvimento a longo prazo. “É muito importante para a África para encontrar uma ferramenta para abrir a porta do desenvolvimento industrial sustentável e...

New York: The head of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has stressed that the agency’s strong focus on inclusive and sustainable industrialization can help bolster the continent’s efforts to achieve long-term growth and development. “It is so important for Africa to find a tool to open the door of inclusive and sustainable industrial development in order to take off...

Africa’s political economy is deeply ingrained with its history of the exploitation and (mis)management of its mineral and natural resources. More than 500 years after commercial exploitation of Africa’s resources, Africa continues to host many of the large and unexploited deposits of minerals globally.

ADDIS ABABA/VIENNA, 9 October 2013 (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) - On his first visit to Africa since taking office, the Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Li Yong, highlighted the Organization's strong focus on inclusive and sustainable industrial development. Li Yong also met the Chairperson of the African Union...

Carlos LOPES, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, often talks about Toblerone, the famous chocolate bar manufactured in Switzerland by Kraft Foods, an US$18 billion company. Cocoa for Toblerone bars is imported, probably from Africa, where 70 percent of the world’s cocoa is harvested. Mr Lopes once pointed this out to Côte d’Ivoire’s president, Alassane...

The head of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has stressed that the agency's strong focus on inclusive and sustainable industrialization can help bolster the continent's efforts to achieve long-term growth and development. In Addis Ababa, Mr. Li also met the Chairperson of the AU Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma; the Deputy Chairperson, Erastus Mwencha;...

It’s been a year since Carlos Lopes was appointed UN under-secretary-general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. edit

Africa’s political economy is deeply ingrained with its history of the exploitation and (mis)management of its mineral and natural resources. More than 500 years after commercial exploitation of Africa’s resources, Africa continues to host many of the large and unexploited deposits of minerals globally

In a wide-ranging opening session on Africa and the global economy, Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, bemoaned Africa’s poor marketing in advertising its successes (15 of the world’s 20 best-performing countries) in meeting the Millennium Development Goals. He also challenged perceived truths: Natural resource revenues can only account for about a third...

Sob o lema "Tirar Proveito dos Recursos Naturais para a Transformação Económica", o fórum iniciou os seus trabalhos com a mesa redonda sobre a posição de Áfricana na nova paisagem económica mundial animada pelo presidente do Banco Africano de Desenvolvimento (BAD), Donald Kaberuka, e pelo secretário executivo da Comissão Económica para África (CEA), Carlos Lopes.

Addis Ababa, 04 October 2013 (ECA) – The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Carlos Lopes, today in Addis Ababa praised delegates at the African Regional Conference on Population and Development for their commitment to making progress on issues discussed at the forum.

Carlos Lopes pense que depuis 2012, « ce sont les mentalités et les priorités, peut-être plus que l'économie, qui changent profondément. » Dans ses travaux sur les cinquante prochaines années avec la Banque africaine de développement et la Commission de l’Union africaine (UA) sur le programme Vision 2063, la CEA a « convaincu les ministres africains des Finances d’approuver le projet de...

Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), often talks about Toblerone, the famous chocolate bar manufactured in Switzerland by Kraft Foods, an $18 billion company. Cocoa for Toblerone bars is imported, probably from Africa, where 70% of the world’s cocoa is harvested. Mr. Lopes once pointed this out to Côte d’Ivoire’s president, Alassane...

Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), often talks about Toblerone, the famous chocolate bar manufactured in Switzerland by Kraft Foods, an $18 billion company.The cocoa for Toblerone bars is imported probably from Africa, where 70 per cent of the world’s cocoa is harvested.

African governments today issued a strong reaffirmation of their common commitment to prioritizing the needs and rights of women, girls and young people. They also asserted that safeguarding and promoting these needs and rights is essential to addressing barriers to the region’s economic and social development and to delivering sustainable transformation for the continent’s future.