04-Nov-2015
AEC 2015: best of Day 1 (Kinshasa)
Governments in Africa should put into place fiscal rules, sovereign wealth funds and other mechanisms to buffer their economies from the commodities roller-coaster, according to a new report issued during the 10th African Economic Conference by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP...
Leaving no one behind in the development agenda will require taking bold steps by African governments including strengthening the role of the state in economic transformation to address poverty and inequality on the continent. This is in addition to accelerating the process of structural...
The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a critical framing for transforming development like never before, tackling poverty and inequality as well a promoting integrated policy, planning, and governance for the achievement of equitable and sustainable development....
Poor working conditions for doctors, nurses and health technicians has a huge effect on the quality of healthcare as it pushes the health workers to hold several jobs at the same time.
This is the finding of a new research by Gaston Brice Nkoumou Ngoa, an economist at the University of Yaoundé...
04-Nov-2015
African Economic Conference shifts focus to role of international banks in fighting poverty
The role of financial institutions in supporting the fight against poverty has come into sharp focus at the 10th African Economic Conference (AEC), which opened in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 2.
In a research paper on the “Growth and Development Finance Required for...
04-Nov-2015
Researchers call for improved governance and the establishment of strong, credible institutions
On Tuesday, November 3, researchers gathered in Kinshasa at a fringe event held during the 10th African Economic Conference. The session, chaired by Professor Bernadette Kamgnia, Acting Director of the African Development Institute at the African Development Bank (AfDB), featured three...
Economists at the 10th African Economic Conference (AEC) are laying ground for new guidelines to measure household poverty based on new reasoning poverty in urban areas differ from rural areas.
The researchers believe the measurement of poverty based on the average national income does not...