West Africa

Ad hoc Experts Group Meeting of West Africa

 Ad hoc Experts Group Meeting of West Africa 

Niamey, February 13, 2015 (ECA) On March 16-17, 2015 the King Fahd Hotel in Dakar (Senegal) will host the Ad Hoc Experts Group  Meeting coming from 15 Member states of West Africa, the Regional Economic Communities, the ECOWAS, the WAEMU, the MRU, Inter-Governmental Organizations and representatives of the private sector and of civil society, around the theme, “ infrastructural integration and theirs impacts on the Free-Trade Zone in West Africa”.

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Tracking Progress in the Implementation of Regional and International Agendas, Including NEPAD and Other Special Initiatives in the Subregion

The Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 at the United Nations’ Millennium Summit, is guided by a set of specific, quantified, and time-set key targets on the various dimensions of human development: poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, and environmental sustainability. These targets are to be achieved by 2015, from their 1990 level (United Nations, 2000).

New Trends in Triangular and South-South: Africa’s Strategy toward China and its implications for West African Countries

Relations between China and Africa which were essentially ideological in nature during the cold war period have undergone a rapid expansion in the recent past as a result of the strong growth and economic boom which have given fresh momentum to China’s arrival on the international scene.

Report of Harmonization of Data Collection and Economic Forecasting Methods in West Africa

The drafting and monitoring and evaluation of development policies and programmes call for reliable, available and timely statistics. This unending call for reliable statistics by decision makers and other analysts in developing countries grew with the creation of regional economic blocs at the same time as issues of available data comparability arose.

Report on Economic and Social Conditions in West Africa in 2010 and Outlook for 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) economies remain vulnerable and the sustainability of relatively strong growth rates is uncertain given the intensifying fiscal woes in the United States of America, Europe and Japan. During the 2007 and 2008 economic crises, the SSA countries were able to use their heightened economy activity led by booming primary sector (minerals and oil), and improved political and economic governance to consolidate their fiscal positions by reducing deficits and debts to sustainable levels.

Regional Integration : Agricultural Value Chains to Integrate and Transform Agriculture in West Africa

The main objective of the study is to explore solutions for accelerating the achievement of the objectives of NEPAD, CAADP and ECOWAP, in order to generate high growth based on agriculture for a more rapid emergence of the African continent in general and of West Africa in particular. The analysis is justified by the fact that in spite of West Africa’s enormous potential in agricultural resources, the take-off for the agricultural sector remains with little support.

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