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The Africa, Middle East and Europe Desk at the OECD Development Centre conducts high-quality, independent research, analysing the economic and political issues at the heart of these regions’ future. We then provide policy makers with an open, intellectual space to consider our findings alongside other sector players. (more...)
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28-May-2012
The African Economic Outlook has been launched on Monday, 28 May, 2012 in Arusha, Tanzania.
The 2012 and 2013 growth forecasts and figures are released along with this year’s special report on Promoting Youth Employment. Online you will also find the full, web-exclusive and country specific economic reports for 53 out of the 54 African countries.
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from 19-Apr-2012 to 21-Apr-2012
In the context of the preparation for the 4th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policies that will take place in New Delhi on 16-19 October 2012, the High Commission of Planning of Morocco and the OECD Development Centre jointly organised the African Conference on ‘Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies’, held on Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 April 2012 in Rabat at the Centre d’Accueil et de Conférences (CAC), Avenue Essanaoubar, Hay Riad.
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from 19-Apr-2012 to 21-Apr-2012
The conference was held on 19 to 21 April 2012 in Rabat. Jointly organised by the OECD Development Centre and the High Commission for Planning of Morocco in collaboration with the OECD Statistics Directorate, The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), it gathered around 250 regional policy makers, statisticians, academics and other stakeholders with a specific interest in the field.
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20-Dec-2011
Working Paper N° 306: Revisiting MDG Cost Estimates from a Domestic Resource Mobilisation Perspective, brings updated global estimates of the additional financial resources needed in developing countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It argues that the international community needs to broaden its notion of development co-operation beyond Official Development Assistance to reach the MDGs as the 2015 deadline approaches.
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24-Aug-2011
The International Economic Forum on Africa, organised by the OECD Development Centre with the African Development Bank, the UN Commission for Africa and the UNDP has grown to become the largest annual public event on Africa in Europe. This year, the Forum celebrated its 11th anniversary with hundreds of journalists, business people, development co-operation professionals, researchers, civil society representatives and students coming together to hear and engage with a panel of experts discussing the findings of the African Economic Outlook (AEO).
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06-Jun-2011
African countries should develop closer cross-border ties in dealing with traditional and emerging partners so they can boost sustainable and inclusive growth, according to the African Economic Outlook 2011, launched today.
Africa´s economies have weathered the global crisis relatively well and have rebounded in 2010. Recent political events in North Africa and high food and fuel prices are likely to slow the continent’s growth down to 3.7 percent in 2011. During this year, sub-Saharan Africa will grow faster than North Africa. The new report predicts a rebound to 5.8 percent in 2012.
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Social cohesion will be the topic of the next edition of the Perspectives on Global Development report which every year, identifies analyses and provides workable policy solutions for a pressing global development challenge. Having focused on major macroeconomic changes occurring in the world economy – what we call “Shifting Wealth” - in 2010, the PGD report now turns to the challenge of how we can build more cohesive societies in the new global context.
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from 26-Apr-2011 to 27-Apr-2011
African Ministers called on the G20 to accelerate development of infrastructure and boost agricultural investment for food security during the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative ministerial conference in Dakar, Senegal.
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