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Dakar, Senegal, 11 May 2022 - The 54th session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (CoM2022), taking place from 11 to 17 May 2022, has just kicked off in Dakar, Senegal.The hybrid event is jointly hosted by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the government of Senegal on the theme “Financing Africa’s Recovery: Breaking

Dakar, Senegal, 11 May 2022 - The 54th session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (CoM2022), taking place from 11 to 17 May 2022, has just kicked off in Dakar, Senegal.The hybrid event is jointly hosted by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the government of Senegal on the theme “Financing Africa’s Recovery: Breaking

Addis Ababa, 09 May 2022 - Two years after the emergence of COVID-19, Africa has absorbed a number of lessons which will prove crucial as the continent confronts the new food, fuel and fertilizer crisis reverberating across the world as the Russia-Ukraine war creates historic, global trade and commodity disruptions.Ongoing studies will in time, no doubt, offer compelling

Addis Ababa 8 May 2022 (ECA) – The Strategic, Planning and Oversights Division (SPORD) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) organized on 6th May 2022 an external peer review meeting of the draft 2022 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA 2022). Chaired by Said Adejumobi, Director of SPORD, the meeting was attended by renown experts from the academia and policy

Addis Ababa 6 May 2022 (ECA) – Experts from across academia and policy sectors have concluded the external peer review of the 2022 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA 2022), a flagship of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).The report on the theme: "Leveraging digital technology and innovation to promote regional value chains in building forward better in

Dakar, Senegal, 2 May 2022 — African ministers in charge of finance, planning and economic development, as well as leading figures from the private and public sectors will participate in the 54th session of the ECA Conference of Ministers (CoM2022) from the 11th to the 17th of May 2022.

Online, 21 April 2022 (ECA) – Official trade statistics often capture formal trade and leave out informal trade, leading to underestimation of intra-African trade, intra-Regional Economic Community (REC) trade and African trade in general. Understanding the scale of informal trade will be instrumental in accurately monitoring intra-African trade, particularly in the context of

Addis Ababa, 27 April 2022 (ECA) – Member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have elected Cameroon as the Bureau Chair of its Committee on Economic Governance (CEG). Ghana and Algeria will be vice-chairs while Ethiopia and Lesotho will serve as rapporteurs.

By Thomas Yapo, Trade Expert at the ECA African Trade Policy Centre Remittance flows to Sub-Saharan Africa reached USD 48 billion in 2019, but the true total is likely to be significantly higher. This sustainable source of unconditional development financing brings a positive impact as it supports communities in lieu of a defaulting state. But there are flows going in the

Tunis, 15 April 2022 (ECA) - The Ministry of Trade and Export Development of the Republic of Tunisia organized on 15 April 2022 in Tunis a workshop to present stakeholders with its strategy for the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).The draft strategy identifies Tunisia’s comparative advantages, how the country can achieve its full trade