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This report is developed as part of an advisory service request made to UNECA by the Government of the Union of Comoros. The request was for the development of national energy balance statistics to...
The objective of the present report is to examine the ways to integrate cities and urbanization into national development planning to support inclusive economic development[2].It builds on the...
Urbanization is one of the most important shifts that the African continent will undergo this century. As Africa consolidates its efforts to accelerate structural transformation, it faces mounting...
This study aims to identify the opportunities and challenges in building regional value chains, using a sectoral mapping of existing regional value chains and an analysis of their development...
This guidebook addresses the role of cities in economic development, viewing development through an urban lens and cities through an economic lens. There is an argument in it for a greater emphasis...
Over the last six decades, there have been many developments on the continent and a shift from a doctrine of political liberation through one of self-determination, to a pan African...
The paper is divided into four sections, starting with the “Introduction and background”, which analyses the socioeconomic environment in all SADC countries, and ending with an assessment of the...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has core focus on food security and nutrition. Eradicating hunger and malnutrition has been recognized as a complex phenomenon, with different...
Three years after their launch, implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) remains a major challenge in North Africa. Despite significant progress in many areas, North African countries are...
Towards a Transformed and Resilient Continent
The Africa Sustainable Development Report 2018 reviews Africa’s performance on five goals, and related targets and indicators of the 2030 Agenda, taking into account their correspondence ...
The 2018 Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition was, for the first time, jointly prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Economic...
Policy and Enabling Environment Component
Africa’s exposure to climate change puts decades of progress in development and poverty reduction at risk while threatening the livelihoods of millions. Climate shocks and stresses are compromising...
The African continent will be one of the hardest hit by the impacts of climate change, threatening economic growth and eroding advances in poverty reduction. Accurate and timely climate information...
If African nations are to avoid losses from climate shocks and stresses, or reap the potential benefits from changing climatic patterns, governments need accurate, timely and accessible climate...
The climate information landscape is changing. Advances in technologies are giving rise to new innovations that are spurring the generation, packaging up and dissemination of climate information....
Taking the right measures to strengthen knowledge management is a critical part of ensuring that climate information is captured, tailored and disseminated to users that need it.KEY POINTSAfrica...
This paper was prepared during a post-doc visiting fellowship of Eric Patrick FEUB IPAMEN from the University of Yaounde 2-Soa ( LAREM, Cameroon) f und by the United Nations Institute for Development...
The amount of digital information in the world is growing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. With the Internet-of-Things, this will move even faster. In 2012, there were less than...
The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between land access and household wellbeing in Cameroon. We use the multiple component analysis to capture land access determinants and a...
Structural transformation, employment, production and society
The Economic Commission for Africa defines structural transformation as the fundamental changes in economic and social structures that advance inclusive and sustainable development*This...