Aswan, November 15th, 2019 (ECA): The Economic Commission for Africa will hold, in partnership with the Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administration Reform of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the 34th Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) for North Africa, on 25-28 November 2019 in Aswan (Egypt).
Rabat, 13 October, 2019 (ECA) – Representatives of Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia took part this week in the joint ECA (Office for North Africa) – Arab Maghreb Union Seminar on the Potential Impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on Maghreb Economies, stressing the urgent need to coordinate their countries’ AfCFTA implementation strategies to ensure national and regional interests and priorities are taken into account.
Rabat, 4 November 2019 (ECA) – The Economic Commission for Africa and the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) will hold, on 11-12 November in Rabat (Kingdom of Morocco) a regional seminar on the potential impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on the Maghreb economies.
Seminar on the potential impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on the Maghreb economies. This event will be held with the participation of representatives from Arab Maghreb Union countries with the aim of promoting regional integration among economic players in the Maghreb and encouraging countries to strengthen their participation in the building of the African single market.
Understanding why North African economies are not growing as dynamically as they possibly could to generate enough jobs is a key interrogation.
The present report argues that growth processes may be influenced by the allocation of resources between sectors and that efficient resource allocation within sectors is critical for growth and job creation.
However, North African economies often suffer from distortions with high potential impacts on productivity as countries tend to suffer from high productivity dispersion at the level of firms, reflecting a misallocation issue.
Tunis, August 1st, 2019 (ECA): The Economic Commission for Africa and the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Tunisia held on Monday 29 July in Tunis and Wednesday 31 July in Sfax the National Forum on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Tunis, 26 July 2019 (ECA): The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will organise on 29 July the National Forum on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in partnership with the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Tunisia, at the Export Promotion Centre (CEPEX) in Tunis and on July 31 at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Sfax.
The Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts is an annual statutory meeting in which country representatives assess the achievements of the ECA Office for North Africa, validate its programme of work and issue recommendations in preparation for ECA continental and statutory meetings.