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African countries can increase government revenue by 12–20 per cent of GDP by adopting a policy framework to strengthen revenue mobilization in six key areas.
Economic Report on Africa 2019
Africa’s growth rate of 3.2 per cent in 2018 is not sufficient to eradicate poverty.
Economic Report on Africa 2019
All subregions recorded growth in 2018. East Africa remains the fastest growing subregion in Africa.
Economic Report on Africa 2019
To meet the SDGs Africa will need to raise an estimated 11 percent of GDP per year for the next 10 years to close the financing gap.
Economic Report on Africa 2019
Africas GDP will grow by 3.4 by 2019
Data and statistics
The World's population will reach 9.8 billion by 2050. out of the 2 billion increase, 59 percent will be from Africa.
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
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ECA's Nine Programmatic Clusters
Ideas for a prosperous Africa
Macroeconomics and governance
Supports the achievement of Africa’s development agenda through development planning, macroeconomic policy and economic governance, and public finance.
Supports member States in their endeavor to achieve accelerated job creation, sustained economic growth and prosperity through leveraging the role and resources of the private sector, promoting innovative financing solutions and creating the environment in which private sector investments for agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, and other sectors can become viable.
Focuses on improving the production, dissemination, and use of high-quality and comparable data and statistics in Africa to support evidence-based policymaking, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting for the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063.
Technology, climate change and natural resource management
Supports the efficient management of natural resource endowments; reducing the negative impacts of climate change by moving towards green transitions and climate-resilient development and harnessing new technologies in the context of sustainable development.
Tackles effectively the development challenges faced by the Member States and regional economic communities in their respective subregions through the five subregional offices, which cover North, West, Central, East and Southern Africa, all of which are specialized in selected thematic areas
Focuses on the central role of achieving effective regional cooperation and economic integration among member States by supporting efforts to deepen regional markets, boost intra-African trade and global trade, accelerate industrialization and tackle the challenges of structural transformation