Tag: Structural transformation

The world has grown more violent over the last decade, interrupting a long-term trend of increasing peace and disproportionately impacting civilians. This is despite rising financi...

The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa present a diversified landscape of economic growth, according to the new Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s twice-yearly analysis of economic ...

Sixty-third executive session of the Trade and Development Board, 27-29 September 2016 Agenda items for the meeting of the Board include presentation of the report on UNCTAD ...

Growth-poverty and inequality nexus: overcoming barriers to sustainable development African economies have grown substantially over the past decade, but  poverty and inequali...

The final review of the 2016-­2020 COMESA Medium Term Strategic Plan began on 12 July with representatives of Member States making their final input into the plan. The new...

This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly i...

An African Civil Society Call to Governments at UNCTAD 14 Governments at the 14th session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 14) must rise...

The Ministerial Session of the First AU Specialized Technical Committee on Trade, Industry and Minerals (STC-TIM), commenced on 23 May at the African Union Commission (AUC) Headqua...

This document details the scope and the main elements of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with the Republic of Botswana for FY16-20. The previous Country Partnership Strate...

If Africa is to fully realise the benefits of development, services must play an enhanced role in its structural transformation and economic growth processes. This will require add...

In April 2016, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa launched “Transformative Industrial Policy for Africa”, a Special Report authored by University of Cambridge de...

The growth of unconventional gas is spreading across the world with major implications over many years for markets and prices according to a new World Energy Council study ‘...

Despite substantive depreciation of the rand after the global financial crisis, South Africa’s export performance has been very weak. In a group of 20 emerging market peers, Sout...

In its latest policy brief, UNCTAD discusses key policy measures and instruments that the least developed countries and their development partners can mobilize to widen the financi...

The Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC) held a press briefing on 27 January 2016 on the margins of the 26th African Union Summit of Heads of S...

The launch of Foresight Africa: Top priorities for the continent in 2016 is on the horizon. In anticipation of this year’s report, the Africa Growth Initiative team off...

Close to 70% of Africans depend on agriculture for their incomes, yet the sector represents only a third of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP). Efforts to improve farme...

Regional Cooperation Committee meeting to discuss improvements to Africa’s productive integration and Continental Free Trade Area Despite growth during the past decade and relat...

Economic transformation is increasingly believed to be the mechanism to make trade work for poverty reduction and development in Africa. This paper argues that while transformatio...

As the curtains close on the Millennium Development Goals, Mr. Carlos Lopes has stressed that the intense participation of Africa in defining the new sustainable development agenda...