Reliable and timely geographic information empowers the user to better document current conditions and to monitor what is happening; to draw from past experience so as to improve on future performances, and; to establish ...
The Co-coordinating Committee on African Statistical Development (CASD) carried out a full independent evaluation of the achievements, failures, constraints and facilitating factors in meeting the objectives of the Addis ...
It focuses on the African Nations have always put regional integration as the center-piece of their development agenda, as a way to more effectively overcome the main constraints to development, accelerate growth, and ...
This paper reviews the field and practice of knowledge management (KM) and elucidates KM's corporate, national and regional perspectives. It outlines policy implications for African development in the evolving globalised ...
The Economic Commission (ECA), along with the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa organized an Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting on "Reforms in Higher Education and the Use of Information Technology in Africa". ...
This proposal makes the case for a Program or Foundation for the Advancement of Africa Economics. This program will offer research grants, sponsor workshops and seminars and ultimately have teaching/curricular programs as ...
First, the core institutional mandate of the WTO, as a rules-based system, is trade liberalisation. Eliminating trade barriers significantly increases the medium to long-term trade development prospects of countries. Trade ...
A case study of the USHEPiA (University Science, Humanities and Engineering Partnerships in Africa) project is presented in an attempt to suggest ways of developing African research capacity using a network of institutions. ...
The Third Meeting of the Advisory Board on Science and Technology (ABST3) was held from 2 to 4 October 2000 at the Headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in the United Nations Conference ...
The paper focuses on the adoption of Structural The Adjustment Programs (SAPs) starting in mid 1980s in almost all African countries has led to openly adopting a liberalization (open economy) policy. The identical nature ...
The paper deals about a number of sectors across the developing world the process of transformation into innovation systems has already begun. In this paper, we draw on these to illustrate the principles behind this ...
The paper discusses the concept of competitiveness and how the concept has evolved over time. This analysis is useful to understand and assess the current state of competitiveness in Africa and how competitiveness can be ...
This report aims at briefly providing information on the level of implementation of the decisions of the 1st meeting of the Committee on Natural Resources and, Science and Technology (CNRST-1). The report covers the period ...
The Economic Commission for Africa is planning to hold the third African Development Forum (ADF-2001) this year on the theme of Regional Integration in Africa. One of the main objectives which led to the creation of the ...
The mission was undertaken in response to the invitations received by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) from the President and the Secretary- General of the North Africa Port Management Association (NAPMA).
La vingt deuxième session de la Commission/treizième réunion de la Conférence des ministres s'est tenue au siège de la Commission économique pour I'Afrique (CEA) à Addis-Abeba (Ethiopie) du 23 au 27 avril 1907. La réunion ...
L'Etude des conditions, economique et social en Afrique est une analyse des tendances et de la situation économique au cours des deux années précédant reunion de la Conférence des ministres et fait des projections pour ...
La réunion de plénipotentiaires en vue de la création de l'Institut supérieur africain de formation et de recherche techniques a eu lieu à Addis-Abeba (Ethiopie) du 23 au 25 juillet 1979. Y participaient les représentants ...
Th e present annual report of the Economic Commission for Africa covers the period from May 2004 and May
2005. It has been prepared in accordance with paragraph 18 of the Commission’s terms of reference and was ...
After almost four decades of bureaucratic inertia, African air transport is at a crossroads, seeking to
steer its direction towards the creation of an environment propitious for a viable, efficient and sustainable ...