During the last 10 years, Tunisia has achieved consistently good macroeconomic performances. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth amounted on average to 5 percent a year, and reached a record high 6.3 percent in 2007. Nonetheless, the Tunisian economy is characterized by high unemployment (14.2...

The global financial system has witnessed rapid growth and substantial structural change during the last ten years leading to globalisation of financial markets. The integration of financial markets has accentuated the rapid flow of capital across borders as well as magnified the contagious effects...

The African Development Bank has launched the ICP 2011 round surveys starting with the price data collection in 18 regional member countries: Botswana, Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Swaziland,...

Improving access to financial services can contribute to transforming peoples’ lives in developing countries. However, the majority of the ordinary people in these countries still have limited access to these services. Today, an estimated 2.7 billion people in developing countries have no access to...

Concerned about the declining quantity and quality of agricultural statistics and the need to provide data to support emerging data requirements and the requirement for the data systems to be integrated to achieve synergy and costeffectiveness, the United Nations Statistical Commission, in February...

World trade recovered sharply in the first half of 2010, building on the robust performance achieved in 2009. However, recent data indicate a deceleration in world trade volumes since mid-2010. In particular, imports by developed economies appear to have moderated, in conjunction with a slower...

Despite Africa’s widening financing gap to address its core development problems traditional sources of finance have proved to be inadequate in quantity and composition. Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), one of the major sources of external finance continued...

Concerned about the declining quantity and quality of agricultural statistics and the need to provide data to support emerging data requirements and the requirement for the data systems to be integrated to achieve synergy and costeffectiveness, the United Nations Statistical Commission, in February...

According to WHO (2005) 100 million people every year are driven into poverty due to catastrophic health expenditure. It is imaginable that most reside in resource poor settings such as Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) with very weak modern health care systems and in most cases without any functioning...