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The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)’s Executive Secretary of Carlos Lopes said that although Africa has experienced unprecedented growth over the past decade, the continent remains home to the world’s highest proportion of poor people.

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is calling for a departure from perception-based measures of corruption, and cross-country comparisons which it says are flawed and fail to provide enough guidance for policy.

Kuang Weilin, who also serves as Head of the Chinese Mission to the African Union (AU) was named to the post and presented his credentials to Carlos Lopes, UNECA Executive Secretary on Monday at the headquarters of UNECA in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

Almost half of the 10 million graduates churned out of the over 668 universities in Africa yearly do not get job, Kelvin Balogun - President of Coca-Cola, Central, East and West Africa - has said.

L’Institut de formation pour l’Afrique (ATI), le FMI et la Banque de France ont conjointement organisé un séminaire de haut niveau à Maurice les 8 et 9 mars 2016. Plus de 30 dirigeants de haut niveau de toute l’Afrique subsaharienne ainsi que des universitaires d’Afrique, des Amériques et d’Europe se sont réunis pour discuter de l’avenir des zones monétaires, en réfléchissant tout...

The report urges African countries to engage in improving their own governance agenda rather than undertaking the futile exercise of naming and shaming one another because of the given perception levels of corruption

From March 14th – 15th 2016, the International Centre for Leadership Development Nigeria (ICLDNG) joined other civil society organizations, private sector representatives and government officials throughout Africa, in launching the new African Transformation Forum (ATF).

The Chinese government appointed Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia, Kuang Weilin, to serve as China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in addition to his position as ambassador for the east African nation.

African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), an independent think-tank has ended a two- day conference tagged, African Transformation Forum (ATF) 2016, last Tuesday. The conference brought together leading thinkers, policy makers, business leaders, journalists, civil society and development partners to share ideas and collaborate in order to advance Africa’s economic transformation. AJIBOLA...

A senior UN official has underlined the need that African economies must be transformed through industrialization.

L’Ambassadeur de Chine en Éthiopie, Kuang Weilin, est désormais le Représentant permanent de la Chine auprès de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA). Lors de sa visite, aujourd’hui, à la CEA pour présenter ses lettres de créance, au Secrétaire exécutif de la CEA, Carlos Lopes, l’Ambassadeur Kuang se dit ravi d’être le premier représentant permanent de la Chine auprès de la CEA et rajoute...

Although Africa has experienced unprecedented growth over the past decade, the continent remains home to the world’s highest proportion of poor people, noted Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

A senior UN official has underlined the need that African economies must be transformed through industrialization.

African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), an independent think-tank has ended a two- day conference tagged, African Transformation Forum (ATF) on 15 March 2016. The conference brought together leading thinkers, policy makers, business leaders, journalists, civil society and development partners to share ideas and collaborate in order to advance Africa’s economic transformation.

The Economic Commission for Africa will next month launch its 2016 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA) focusing on growth and industrialization on the continent, revealing Africa last year recorded a 3.7 per cent growth rate, maintaining its growth rate level of the last few years.

African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), an independent think-tank has ended a two- day conference tagged, African Transformation Forum (ATF) 2016, last Tuesday. The conference brought together leading thinkers, policy makers, business leaders, journalists, civil society and development partners to share ideas and collaborate in order to advance Africa’s economic transformation.

Agribusiness in Africa is on the rise. “Africa’s economy over the last decade has reached an average growth of 5%,” explains Carlos Lopes in “We Need More Agribusiness in Africa,” posted on Africa Renewal Online, a website produced by the Africa Section of the United Nations Department of Public Information.

RECENT turbulence in the international markets have made it more urgent than before for Africa to transform its economy, Kingsley Amoako, the President of the African Centre for Economic Transformation, has said.