Structural transformation has been one of the most talked about concepts among development practitioners in recent years – especially since the work of Margaret McMillan and Dani Rodrik in 2011. There is little doubt that transforming economic structures is a necessary precondition for economic and social development. But what does this mean in practical terms? And how do we measure it?
Kigali 7 July 2015 (Economic Commission for Africa)- ECA’s Economic Report on Africa 2015 argues that for Africa to be able to address its problems of poverty and lack of employment, it requires a very dynamic industrial sector. For this to happen, trade has a role to play.
The report subtitled Industrialization through Trade was vividly discussed in Kigali by a broad-based group of 93 participants including ambassadors, senior governments officials, academia, UN Staff, private Sector, bilateral and multilateral representatives and the media.
The proposed training aims to connect energy sector experts from select countries of Eastern Africa with the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP )planning tool to enhance their planning and analysis capabilities through the use of contemporary tools and will offer a platform for sharing experiences. The training will be offered by the Stockholm Environment Institute on the LEAP planning tool, and will conduct the certified training based on the 2014 version of LEAP.
Antananarivo 7 March 2015 -The 19th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Eastern Africa was closed after four days of in-depth discussions debates and exchanges on Harnessing the Blue Economy for Eastern Africa’s Development.
The meeting organized by the Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in collaboration with the Government of Madagascar produced some of the following takeaways:
Antananarivo – Madagascar, 3 March 2015 (ECA) -The four-day meeting that started on 2 March at the Carlton Hotel of Madagascar is the 19th Session of Intergovernmental Committee of Experts of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Eastern Africa and has as the theme: Harnessing the Blue Economy for Eastern Africa’s Development.
The meeting is looking at the abundant opportunities offered by waters, seas and oceans to accelerate structural transformation in countries of Eastern Africa.
Many of the people of the Great Lakes Region live below the poverty line and one of the causes of this situation is the population’s lack of access to means of production, of which loans is a vital component. However, it is a fact that today, in the region, a number of decentralized financial institutions, NGOs and governments are endeavouring to coordinate their efforts in trying to overcome this bottleneck, by coming up with sectoral policies in development, and by providing support to micro finance activities in the fight against poverty and making efforts to revive growth in order to a
This report presents findings on need assessment in Modelling and Forecasting in East African Central Banks. This assessment has been commissioned by the Monetary Affairs Committee (MAC) of East African Community and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Sub Regional office for Eastern Africa (henceforth UNECA/SRO–EA).
Modelling and forecasting training program is designed to provide adequate skills to the staff of EAC Central Banks in Economic Analysis, Modelling and Forecasting.
While some countries in the subregion have already or are in the process of putting in place ICT development policies, strategies and programmes, others are somehow lagging behind and need to make up for lost time in order to avoid imbalanced development in this sector. ICTs can only serve as effective tools of broad-based development, poverty reduction and opportunity for all, if people in every corner of developing countries and at all levels of society have reliable and affordable access to them.
The view that the relatively low economies of the sub-Saharan Africa may not be affected by the global economic and financial crisis due to their minimal integration to the world giants of the financial markets is no longer valid as the impact of the crisis has affected heavily the continent. Until the onset of the largely financial crisis, the African continent had been experiencing what is now come to be known as the commodity boom with growing demand and rising prices of agricultural products.