Publication list
Elections & the Management of Diversity
The African Governance Report, the most comprehensive report on governance in Africa, assesses and monitors the progress of African countries on governance, identifies capacity gaps in governance...
Harmonizing Policies to Transform the Trading Environment
ARIA VI, “Harmonizing Policies to Transform the Trading Environment,” carries forward the momentum of January 2012’s Decision and Declaration by addressing the issue of harmonizing rules of origin...
The Yearbook series, is a result of joint efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the...
Making the most of Africa’s commodities: industrializing for growth, jobs and economic transformation
Africa’s industrialization imperativeAfrican countries are facing the key challenge of designing and implementing effective policies to promote industrialization and economic transformation at a...
Making Aid Work for Africa
Recent research suggests that African countries require high, inclusive and sustained economic growth in order to make significant progress in creating employment and reducing poverty. Experiences of...
Unleashing Africa’s Potential as a Pole of Global Growth
Africa’s experience over the last decade suggests strongly that the continent is likely to make the 21st century its own. Since the beginning of this century, African countries have shown strong...
Governing development in Africa- the role of the State in economic transformation
In the past decade, Africa recorded strong economic growth rates, both in terms of its own historical record and relative to other regions. While the continental growth rate did not reach the 7 per...
The energy mixes of African countries are progressively including renewable energy contributions, which have significantly increased, given the technological maturity and advances in recent years....
Access to energy is a strategic priority in all regions of the world. Even today, nearly 1.6 billion people do not have access to modern energy and three billion people depend on “traditional biomass...
Lessons Learned and Best practices
Several African countries are endowed with considerable amounts of mineral resources. These resources play a crucial role in the economy, as they account for a significant share of exports. Indeed,...
Sustainable Development Report on Africa IV
Africa is endowed with a very rich and diverse natural resource base on which the livelihood of its people, especially the rural population, depends. Although Governments are placing pro-poor...
Situations of armed conflict and periods of post-conflict reconstruction in Central Africa pose specific challenges to achieving gender equality and the protection of women’s rights. Exclusion of...
Le Bureau Sous-régional pour l’Afrique Centrale de la Commission Economique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique (CEA/BSR-AC) a organisé du 27 février au 1er mars 2013 à Libreville, République Gabonaise...
Despite the political uncertainty, Egypt’s economy maintained a growth of 1.8 points in 2012 as compared to 1.7 points in 2011. Activities increased in most of the sectors, though exports shrunk by 0...
Framework document
The North African countries have not yet taken full advantage of the cooperation opportunities in the region, nor in terms of market development (intra-regional trade represents less than 4...
The transition of the countries of North-Africa to the category of emerging countries will certainly take place through a major transformation of their economies; and this raises the issue of...
The Member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) continue to perform well macroeconomically. Moreover, since 2005 the countries of this community have attained growth...
Welcome to the first Africa Science, Technology and Innovation Review 2013. This series of reviews is intended to provide sound data and evidence to enable member States to make informed policy...
The study uncovers some of the major hurdles impeding the transfer of publicly funded technologies from R&D institutions to the African market, and proposes a number of policy options that...
CCDA-III objectivesThe prime objective of CCDA III was to provide a forum for climate experts and the various stakeholders in development policy and practice to confer on how opportunities presented...