Publication list
Infrastructure development is a key driver for progress across the African continent and a critical enabler for sustainable and socially inclusive growth. The Programme for Infrastructure Development...
Lessons, insights and messages from past and present experiences
Development planning in Africa predates independence and remains an enduring feature of the policymaking landscape. Despite a brief interruption during the structural adjustment programme era the...
The concept of the Blue Economy integrates a new approach to the economic exploitation of the resources of our oceans, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water.Alongside the “green economy”, it...
The GMIS Strategy was proposed by the AMDC to facilitate the strengthening of the African production, management and dissemination of geological and mineral information (GMI) in connection...
The Geology and Mineral Information System (GMIS) Strategy was proposed by the Africa Mineral Development Centre (AMDC) to facilitate the strengthening of the African production, management...
The CR4D Scientific Advisory Committee(SAC) meeting was held on 17-18 March 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss various issues related to the CR4D secretariat including the election of SAC co-...
The joint Climate Research for Development (CR4D) Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) members and the Oversight Board members meeting was held back-to-back to the sixth Annual Climate Change for...
The CR4D regional climate research partnership Workshop for Southern Africa was successfully held in Gaborone on 25-26 May2016 with the primary objectives of scoping and assessing of user-driven...
At the end of the 1990s, Africa’s leaders committed themselves to the continent’s renewal with the creation of the African Union and the adoption of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development...
This edition of the “Integrated National and Sub Regional Economic, Social and Environmental Indicators“ provides detailed economic trends for each African country by sector.In expanding the theme of...
Sixteenth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE)
The main objective of the study is to bring to the attention of relevant entities the various angles that the APRM could be harnessed to foster a concrete transformation in the management of mineral...
The purpose of the Technical notes is to outline the scope of the data presented and to indicate as far as possible the concepts, definitions and classification involved. Readers are advised to also...
Poverty alleviation is at the forefront of the global development agenda. As a result, there has been an increase in the demand for quality statistics to evaluate and monitor progress towards...
Welcome to the 2015 edition of the ECA Publications Catalogue. This year’s Catalogue features more than 100 reports and studies that will be made available over the course of the year, in addition to...
Cancelling the external debt of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries hardesthit by the EBOLA outbreak, will give these countries the breathing space they need to addressthe complex...
Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa
The 4th Joint African Union Commission/United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (AUC/ECA) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development was held in 2011. This...
Implementing Biofuels Programme for Household and Transport Energy Use
What does this Project seek to achieve in 2015?The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC) and the NEPAD Policy and Coordinating...
Many studies into the mining sector have described how masculine the industry is. However, this Special Report highlights the significant, yet chronically underreported major role African women play...
This book on Innovative financing for the economic transformation of Africa is a publication of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). It is a compilation of reworked versions of the well-...
Industrializing through trade
This Report examines and provides analysis on the critical elements of effectively fostering industrialization and hence structural transformation based on an extensive review of experience with...