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Addis Ababa, 12 December 2022 - Ethiopia signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement in Kigali on the historic day of 21 March 2018. Exactly a year to the day, on 21 March 2019, the Ethiopian Parliament – the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) – ratified the AfCFTA Agreement, a significant landmark in the long history of Ethiopia.

Addis Ababa, 21 December 2022 (ECA) - There is a need for the re-channeling of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to help crisis-hit African countries access sustainable financing to boost economic stability and growth.In opening remarks at the Policy Dialogue on Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Director for the Macroeconomics and Governance

Montreal, Canada, 15 December 2022 (ECA) - The United Nations Regional Economic Commissions (RECs) say that securing an equitable framework for biodiversity is humanity’s ticket to sustainable development.The world is at crossroads as global leaders battle to forge a new deal to protect biodiversity at the Convention for Biodiversity (CBD) COP15, underway in Montreal,

Durban, 12 December 2022 (ECA) – The Innovative Finance and Capital Markets Section, Private Sector Development and Finance Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), hosted a meeting on credit ratings from 5 to 7, December 2022.

Addis Ababa, 13 December 2022 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, (ECA) Acting Executive Secretary, Antonio Pedro, has called for the forging of strong partnerships and innovative strategies to tap new opportunities in the wake of economic and environmental crises affecting African countries.Opening the three-day ECA Expo at the United Nations Conference

Luanda, Angola, 13 December 2022 (ECA) - The Government of Sao Tome and Principe, with the support of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is implementation a new Value Added Tax (VAT) system to improve revenue collection.ECA, through the Macroeconomics and Governance Division (MGD) has been supporting tax policy reforms, believing in the need to enhance

Dakar, Senegal, 7 December 2022 - At the closing of a three-day Africa Climate Resilient Investment Facility (AFRI-RES) training in Dakar, Senegal, Karima Bounemra, the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) director, urged participants to apply the knowledge they had acquired to develop a climate-resilient African continent.Bounemra further also

Balaclava, Mauritius, 11 December 2022 (ECA) - The 17th edition of the annual African Economic Conference (AEC2022) has ended with calls for African countries to cooperate in promoting climate-smart development, which offers great opportunities for the continent to accelerate its economic transformation.“Africa is by far the most vulnerable region in terms of climate change.

Balaclava, Mauritius, 10 Dec.

The African Economic Conference 2022 kicked off on Friday in Balaclava, Mauritius, with speakers in the first plenary session calling for the continent to find alternative models of climate financing away from debt instruments.Speaker after speaker reminded developed countries to keep their promise to help pay for the damages caused by climate change in Africa. African