Publication list
Advancing new frontiers of African climate research to enhance the production of climate information and services for development planning
The Climate Research for Development in Africa initiative was launched to strengthen links between climate science research and climate information needs in support of development planning in Africa...
Climate information services – the packaging and dissemination of climate information to specific users – are vital in...
Institutional and Temporal Considerations
The paper analyses the short run and long impact of commodity prices on real GDP per capita growth in 29 African countries over the period 1980-2013. The paper uses the latent-class panel error...
Poverty, inequality, migration and political unrest have all threatened social cohesion in Eastern Africa, as well as many other threats. Yet the region has proved remarkably resilient to these...
The global economy is currently witnessing the development of global value chains (GVC) in which intermediate goods and services are being traded through fragmented production processes and spread...
For a number of countries, green economy is no longer a choice but a necessity dictated by the growing environmental degradation and depletion of their natural resources, and by climate change and...
Welcome to the 2016 edition of the ECA Publications Catalogue. This year’s Catalogue features reports and studies that will be made available over the course of the year, as well as major...
Measuring corruption in Africa: The international dimension matters
This fourth edition of the African Governance Report focuses on the importance of measuring corruption and of understanding its international dimensions. The report challenges the traditionally...
Innovation, Competitiveness and Regional Integration
Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA) VII examines how the three elements of regional integration, innovation and competitiveness are interlinked. It explores the prospects for harnessing...
Greening Africa’s Industrialization
Structural transformation in Africa’s economies remains the highest priority, and industrialization is the top strategy for achieving it in practice. Achieving the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and...
African countries are in the process of upgrading and promoting the development of higher-productivity sectors, including manufacturing and high-end services. One of the key elements is the need to...
Africa’s “Blue world” is made of vast lakes and rivers and an extensive ocean resource base. The Blue Economy can play a major role in Africa’s structural transformation, sustainable economic...
Country profiles are flagship products of ECA, intended to serve as a vehicle for the production and dissemination of country- and region-specific policy analyses and recommendations, geared towards...
Implications for Regional Integration
Investment in Africa has surged in recent years due largely to its growth performance in the last decade, its rising consumer market and middle class, high rates of return on investment, as well as...
Africa’s growth has turned around impressively since the start of the century. Against the backdrop of the commodity boom that began in the early 2000s, Africa as a natural resource–rich continent...
Reflections on Policy and Practice
This second issue of the Journal of African Transformations, through the various themes it addresses and analyses a number of social and economic dynamics taking place on the African continent. In...
Regional integration is a development priority for Africa. All Africans, not just policy makers and decision makers, have a role to play in making integration a reality for the continent.Integration...
The present policy brief draws upon an upcoming report by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) entitled “Inclusive green economy and structural transformation in Africa”, prepared in response to...
The present policy brief draws from an upcoming joint publication by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Environment programme (UNEP) entitled “Means of implementation for...
The present policy brief draws from an upcoming report by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), informed by a survey of nine selected projects in the Lake Victoria Basin complemented with...