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Africa's negative portrayal as “a risky continent in which to do business” must be tackled, Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UNECA, told a high-level roundtable on ‘Building Private Equity and Private Capital Markets in Africa'.

Ms Mtoba conceded there was corruption in Africa but criticised the fact that it was perceived in continental terms, as if all the countries were in the same basket.

A high-level roundtable on Building Private Equity and Private Capital Markets in Africa, met on 8 May, to explore the promise and obstacles facing private capital investments in Africa.

In this interview with Staff Writer Rose Athumani, Dr. Lopes talks about Economic growth and Industrialization in Africa.

The main message to emerge, and which for the first time received strong support, was that more value should be added locally to Africa’s raw materials.

Lopez traces African experience with industrialisation, why African countries must industrialise as well as accelerate industrialisation.

The meeting with the minister was about the possibility of us helping Zimbabwe on the currency issues”, Lopes told Standardbusiness.

In the Ivorian capital Abidjan this week, delegates from across the continent and beyond gathered for a six-day conference themed, “Industrialization for an Emerging Africa.”

According to Mr Lopes, some of the fastest growing economies in the world are African and the continent has shown relative buoyancy in an era of economic crisis.

UNECA admits that Africa's state-led industrialisation policies of the 1970s were very unsuccessful, resulting in massive deficits, 'stagflation' and debt that plunged the continent into an economic crisis from which it is only now beginning to emerge.

Sur un milliard de personnes que nous sommes sur le continent africain, il y a peut-être environ 100 millions de personnes qui sont affectées par des conflits. On oublie les 900 millions.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has called on Africa to use the current moment to tell its own story and shape Africa’s future growth trajectory.

Six mois après son entrée en fonction à la tête de la Commission économique des Nations unies pour l'Afrique (CEA), Carlos Lopes a déjà marqué de son empreinte l'institution basée à Addis-Abeba.

Pour le Président de la République, en abordant le thème de « l’industrialisation au service de l’émergence de l’Afrique », l’objectif des panelistes est d’approfondir les politiques industrielles pour le développement de l’Afrique.

Carlos Lopes, secrétaire exécutif de la CEA, a reçu "Jeune Afrique" à l'occasion des sixièmes réunions annuelles conjointes de l'Union Africaine et de la CEA, qui se tiennent du 21 au 26 mars à Abidjan.

Edmund Kagire spoke to the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Carlos Lopes during his recent visit to Rwanda to lobby the country to support his organisation’s initiative to start an industrial revolution on the continent.

African leaders agreed at their last summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to do more to eradicate poverty, create employment and improve governance, among other issues, if the continent is to continue along positive growth lines.

Le nouveau secrétaire général de la CEA n’a pas caché sa satisfaction concernant «le grand dynamisme d’un certain nombre d’acteurs marocains en Afrique, notamment dans les secteurs financier, du transport, et de l’industrie».

Le secrétaire d’Etat auprès du Premier ministre, chargé de la Prospective et des Statistiques, Bachir Messaitfa, a reçu mardi après-midi le secrétaire exécutif de la CEA, Carlos Lopes, suite à l’invitation qui lui a été adressée par les autorités algériennes.