ECA: Regional analysis and policy responses – RC Update No. 25/1 July 2021
ECA
Research and analysis
- Survey report: Perception of the East African Community private sector on the African Continental Free Trade Area (Publication)
News and press releases
- Media Advisory – Roundtable: “Leveling the Playing Field for Intra-Africa Investment through the African Continental Free Trade Area” (Media Alert – 29 June)
- ECA, NKC African Economics to Present Joint Report on Best Practices in Job Creation in Africa (Media Alert – 28 June)
- A new dawn for Africa’s climate research for development narrative (Press release – 28 June)
- ECA supports Côte d’Ivoire to accelerate its structural transformation (Press release – 28 June)
- ECA partners ODI and ACET to research into how AfCFTA will promote post COVID-19 economic recovery (Press release – 23 June)
- New ECA study shows Africa may not meet SDG7 targets (Press release – 22 June)
- Momentum gathers on ground-breaking African driven climate research priorities (Press release – 21 June)
- Embedding and financing climate resilience underpins Africa’s recovery (Press release – 19 June)
- Thousands of African girls to be trained in Coding for development (Press release – 18 June)
- Preparations for Accra’s COVID-19 economic recovery and resilience plan kick-off (Press release – 18 June)
- Fare thee well Kenneth Kaunda, a true friend of the ECA (Press release – 17 June)
- ECA examines Côte d’Ivoire’s migration policy (Press release – 17 June)
- ACRIS-5 urges urgent and scaled up financing for the integration of climate resilience for Africa’s green recovery (Press release – 16 June)
- ECA commends Ethiopia’s strides in digitizing logistics sector (Press release – 16 June)
- African Regional Kick-off Workshop on the Statistical Measurement of IFFs (Press release – 15 June)
- Workshop to validate the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national strategy for the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) (Press release – 15 June)
- ECA supports DRC to organize workshop to validate its national AfCFTA implementation strategy (Press release – 15 June)
- The World Bank and the African Union’s Covid-19 Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) agree to work together to deploy vaccines for 400 million Africans (Press release – 14 June)
Resources
- ECA COVID-19 Response: Publications, Events, Presentations and other Resources
- Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19