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Addis Ababa, 27 March 2023 (ECA) - With financial, health and climate shocks threatening to reverse two decades of development progress in Africa, experts have called for urgent concessionary financing to help the continent build resilience and boost economic growth.A mix of shocks including food and fuel impact of the Russia-Ukraine war, climate change impacts, conflict, and

Addis Ababa, 21 March 2023 (ECA) - Africa is set to miss most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to current research. But countries can take action to accelerate sustainable development if they plan better and invest in effective data and statistical systems, says Oliver Chinganya, Director of the Africa Center for Statistics (ACS) of the Economic

Addis Ababa, 21 March 2023 (ECA) - Development experts have warned that persistent poverty and inequality are likely to undermine prosperity, peace and security in Africa unless governments embark on innovative and people-entered development models.“It is becoming increasingly unlikely that African States will achieve many of the targets set out in the Sustainable Development

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 20 March 2023 (ECA) – Panelists at a High-level round-table discussion at the 55th Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development formulated recommendations on how the African Continental Free Trade Area can be leveraged to foster economic resilience, inclusion and recovery.Chaired by the Director of the ECA

Addis Ababa, 20 March 2023 (ECA) - Innovative and collaborative financing models are required to urgently finance climate action, particularly in Africa and emerging markets, concluded experts attending a round table on the socioeconomic implications of climate change and opportunities for leveraging green finance at the ministerial segment of the 55th Conference of African

Addis Ababa, 21 March 2023 (ECA) - Africa should deploy innovative resource mobilization and accelerate economic recovery from multiple crises which have eroded two decades of development gains and increased poverty, Ministers of Finance have urged.In a Ministerial Statement adopted at the 55th session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic

Addis Ababa, 20 March 2023 (ECA) - Africa - pummeled by a combination of crises - should swiftly invest in and implement people-centered strategies to mobilize financial resources and accelerate continental economic recovery, Economic Commission for Africa, acting Executive Secretary, Antonio Pedro has urged.Opening the ministerial segment of the 55th Session of ECA’s

Addis Ababa, 16 March 2023 (ECA) - Africa needs inclusive economic policies that promote sustainable growth while reducing poverty and inequality, Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Hanan Morsy urged, underlining pro-poor policies as the cornerstone of recovery of the continent.Noting that Africa was “facing a perfect

Niamey, 06 March 2023 (ECA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J.

Addis Ababa 15 March 2023 (ECA) - With slower economic growth and high inflation, many African countries are struggling to meet the continent's development goals due to the impact of severe and mutually reinforcing shocks.