Opportunities Stemming from the African Continental Free Trade Area
Agriculture is the backbone of the African economy, and a major source of income in African...
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Stock Exchanges currently exist in 28 African countries The oldest are the Egyptian Exchange, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Casablanca Stock Exchange, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Economic Report on Africa 2020
An estimated $18 - $30 billion a year will be needed over the next two decades for climate action and climate change adaptation in Africa, with nearly $1 trillion worth of investments and projects ready to be financed.
Economic Report on Africa 2020
If successful, the AfCFTA agreement will create a single African market of over 1.2 billion consumers with a total GDP above $2.5 trillion by 2030.
Economic Report on Africa 2020
Between 2017 and 2022, the African banking sector is projected to grow at 8% a year.
Economic Report on Africa 2020
Africa receives only 2% of the current annual global renewable energy investment of $309 billion.
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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Ideas for a prosperous Africa
Macroeconomics and Governance Division
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
Our programme aims to support member States in their efforts to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment in every sphere of life. We support member States in accelerating the implementation of relevant policies, mechanisms and tools as well as the monitoring and evaluation of their international commitments in order to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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