Moroni, Comoros, 20 November 2017 (ECA)- Participants at the 21st session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts have adopted the final communiqué which focuses on catalysts to growth in Eastern Africa, and paves the way for enhanced cooperation between the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and member states, including the Union of the Comoros.
Moroni, Comoros, 15 November 2017 (ECA) - Tourism and energy are among the sectors that can accelerate growth in Comoros and enable the country to achieve the Government strategic vision to become an emerging country by 2030.
The joint session concluded the three-day meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts held by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Moroni. The Comoros profile produced by the ECA, which highlights macroeconomic and social developments in the country, was officially presented during the meeting.
Moroni, Comoros, 14 November 2017 (ECA) - At the end of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts held in Moroni, President Azali Assoumani of the Union of Comoros welcomed a delegation of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and praised the successful organization of the three-day meeting which gathered around 150 participants from Comoros and Eastern Africa. .
Moroni, Comoros, 9 November 2017 (ECA) - Comoros could become the new fashionable destination of the Indian Ocean, but the country's tourism potential is still largely untapped. To leverage its exceptional assets, Comoros needs to develop and implement an integrated tourism strategy, insisted Priscilla Lecomte, an economist at ECA in East Africa.
Moroni, Comoros, November, 8th , 2017 (ECA) - Tourism is now emerging as a dynamic sector for economic growth and development in Eastern Africa. Experts who gathered in Comoros this week for the ECA meeting on catalysts and constraints to transformative growth highlighted the increasing importance of the sector in the economies of the region.
Moroni, Comoros, 8 November 2017 (ECA) - A series of Economic Reports of Africa published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) between 2013 to 2016 argue that infrastructure development has a direct effect on the pace and nature of industrialization and transformation of African countries.
In a globalized world, integration into international and regional market depends on the existing infrastructure assets.
Moroni, Comoros, 7 November 2017 (ECA) - Globally, ocean wealth is valued at $ 24 trillion. If oceans were a country, they would constitute the seventh largest economy in the world. These resources of the blue economy could be a driver for socio-economic transformation and sustainable growth.