Central Africa

Libreville - Gabon, 21 June 2018 (ECA - www.uneca.org/sro-ca) – A milestone on free trade in Central Africa has been reached, thanks to the launch of a series of training sessions for economic stakeholders and National Committees for the Admission of Industrial Products to the ECCAS-CEMAC Preferential Tariff regime – a series that will cover eight countries of the sub-region.

Yaounde, 5 June 2018 (ECA – www.uneca.org/sro-ca) – Experts are at work to thread together Cameroon’s action plan for optimally integrating urbanization concerns into the country’s National Development Plan, at an exercise to fructify about two years of consultations with the Economic Commission for Africa and UN-Habitat, on the matter.

Yaounde, 25 May 2018 (ECA – www.uneca.org/sro-ca) – The Douala Consensus, a call by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) for the rapid diversification and industrialization of economies of Central African countries, continues to stimulate reflection and action by planners from the countries of the subregion. This is the particular case of Cameroon, which has just benefited from a consultation with ECA to update its forecasting, projection and simulation models for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Yaounde, 23 May 2018 (ECA – www.uneca.org/sro-ca) – Despite its laudable development plans as well as the rising level of transformation of its local products, Cameroon still has big gaps to plug in terms of the structural transformation of its economy (structural transformation here referring to a marked change in the components of production of an economy – moving factors of production, notably labor and capital, from lower level productivity sectors such as mere subsistent agriculture/extraction of raw materials to higher levels includin