Poor Development Outcomes Reflect Enduring Challenges In Natural Resources Governance
Africa has been slow to convert its natural resources endowments to tangible development outcomes because of weaknesses in governance, according to the fifth edition of the African Governance Report published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The report launched during the ongoing ECA Conference of Ministers in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) argues that the […]
Agriculture’s Potential To Power Economic Growth Highlighted In African Transformation Report
A major study by the Africa Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) has highlighted how transforming agriculture can become a stimulus for economic development across the continent. The report, the second of its kind from the centre, was launched at a high-level event on 13 May during the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) annual Conference […]
Digitalisation: The Unavoidable Key to Unlocking Future Opportunities
With local businesses facing a ‘perfect storm’ of data sources, manipulations and stores, there is a growing imperative to act now based on this new paradigm. The combined forces of the Internet of Things (IoT), which brings vast and untapped data sources, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine-to-machine learning, requiring new disciplines in terms of process […]
