Publication list
Background Document
The African Union’s (AU) perspective is that agriculture and land are central in the social and economic development of the continent and that rights to land are fundamental to the participation of...
This report provides a summary of 14 national reports of Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) member states on past, present and likely future compliance of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...
Capital Flows and Development Financing in Africa
African countries continue to face perennial shortages of resources to finance public and private investment. This constrains their ability to accelerate growth, seen as key to reducing poverty....
The 2006 African Statistical Yearbook, the twenty fourth issue, presents data arranged on a country basis for 53 ECA member States, generally for the years 1997 to 2005 or for the last nine years for...
Rationalizing Regional Economic Communities
Africa’s internal trade (intra-Africa trade) has consistently remained minimal compared with its intercontinental trade. The pattern of African exports continues to be heavily influenced by...
Managing Land-Based Resources for Sustainable Development
Africa is endowed with rich and diverse renewable and non-renewable natural resources, yet its people remain among the poorest in the world. Improving the welfare of people in Africa requires...
Meeting the Challenges of Unemployment and Poverty in Africa
Poverty in Africa is substantially higher than in other developing regions. More enigmatic is that poverty on the continent is chronic and rising. At 46 per cent, the share of the total population...
The African Governance Report (AGR) is the result of extensive research covering governance practices in 27 African countries undertaken by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) through national...
Unlocking Africa’s Trade Potential
After fifty years progress, the future of the multilateral system of trade negotiations is surrounded by uncertainty. Th e collapse of the Cancun World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting in...
The African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) is a tool that maps the extent of gender inequality in Africa and assesses government performance. It consists of two parts, the quantitative Gender...
African leaders now recognize more than ever the urgency of accelerating Africa’s integration, especially given the challenges of regionalism amid globalization. The World Trade Organization’s rules...
Many studies claim that mineral resources impact negatively on economic growth particularly in developing countries. This paper briefly reviews this argument (the natural resources curse hypothesis)...
International experience has demonstrated that a properly structured and administered minerals industry has potential to generate substantial benefits to individual economies and regions. Apart from...
Pilot Studies of South Africa and Mozambique
This report forms the pilot study component of a broader initiative undertaken by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to identify and Tcharacterize the role of the minerals...
Tracking Performance and Progress
Economic Report on Africa 2002 is the third in an annual series that reviews the continent’s economic performance and near-term prospects. Targeted to African and global policymakers, the reports are...
Transforming Africa’s economies
Africa made impressive economic progress in the 1990s. In the second half of the decade real GDP growth averaged 4% a year, and several countries sustained double-digit growth. The climate became...
NEPAD has been conceived by African Heads of State as a development framework that will do precisely these things, hence the emphasis on partnership. It is based on the realisation that Africa has...
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) organized an Africa regional ten-year review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10) on...