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Projet de plan-programme pour 2025 et exécution du programme en 2023 : résumé et projet de budgetprogramme pour 2025
No full textLe présent document est un résumé du projet de plan-programme pour 2025, de l’exécution du programme pour 2023 et du projet de budget-programme pour 2025 de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique, dont le texte intégral est en cours d’examen par la Division de la planification des programmes et du budget. Le plan-programme proposé pour 2025 vise à aider les membres de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA), les communautés économiques régionales et d’autres parties prenantes à progresser vers la réalisation de l’objectif de développement durable et la réalisation du deuxième plan décennal de mise en œuvre de l’Agenda 2063
Study on Islamic Finance in Eastern Africa
No full textThe practice of riba is forbidden by Islam. According to Islamic laws (Sharia), it is not allowed to charge any interest on money lent to someone. This prohibition originates during the Middle Ages in the Arab peninsula (Martens, 2021). However, the concept of modern Islamic finance was launched in the 1940s under the impulse of the Pakistani Sunni theologian Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi. Over the past decades, Islamic finance had a significant expansion across the world. The total assets of financial institutions offering Islamic products and services have grown by almost 25% a year over the past decade to reach US$2.7 trillion4 in 2020. It is important for East African countries to properly design policies that enable them to attract Islamic financial institutions and investments into their economies. The countries of the region, therefore, need to have an in-depth understanding of Islamic finance, its rules, standards, requirements, and investment criteria to design an appropriate legal and regulatory framework that meets these requirements. This is the high-level objective of this study launched by ECA/SRO-EA on Islamic finance. This report presents the results as well as the recommendations of the study carried out by the consultant. After this introduction, the second part will focus on some definitions and generalities of Islamic finance. This part of the report will also discuss the worldwide evolution and trend in Islamic finance development. The third part will review and analyses the current state of Islamic finance in Eastern Africa, whereas the fourth part of the report will analyses the link between Islamic finance, financing needs, and the development of the sub-region’s economies. The fifth part of the report will discuss, in addition to the sector regulatory requirements, the skills, competencies gaps, and other constraints in the sector in the context of Eastern African economies. The last part will conclude the report by providing policy recommendations
Policy brief L’Intelligence artificielle en Afrique : potentiel de développement économique et défis à releve
No full textCe Policy brief est un résumé de l’étude intitulée
« L’Intelligence artificielle en Afrique : potentiel de
développement économique et défis à relever », il
apporte un éclairage précieux sur ces questions cruciales.
Puisse-t-elle nourrir le débat et inspirer l'action pour que
l'Afrique devienne un acteur majeur, et non un simple
spectateur, de la révolution irréversible de l'IA en cours. Il
souligne à la fois l'immense potentiel de l'IA pour le
développement durable de l'Afrique, mais aussi les
risques de retard et de nouvelle forme de dépendance
technologique si le continent ne se dote pas d'une
maîtrise souveraine de ces technologies. Elle pose bien les
enjeux stratégiques et plaide pour une mobilisation de
toutes les parties prenantes africaines autour de cet enjeu
décisif pour l'avenir du continent
Digital trade regulatory integration country profile: Central African Republic
No full textThe African Trade Policy Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa initiated the Digital Trade Regulatory Integration (DTRI) initiative with four main objectives: to provide insights on digital services trade regulations for the African Continental Free Trade Area protocol, to inform the development of a digital trade integration index, to encourage the inclusion of African countries in the OECD's Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index, and to support analytical work on digital trade. This country profile focuses on the Central African Republic, analyzing its regulatory environment for digital services trade through two datasets: one on restrictions from 2014 to 2021 and another on digital trade integration measures
A Rabat, la CEA lance les préparatifs pour ledéveloppement de chaînes de valeurs africaines de lamobilité électrique
No full textLes intervenants, dont des représentants gouvernementaux des trois pays concernés, ont souligné l'importance de créer un écosystème collaboratif pour la production et la maintenance des véhicules électriques, tout en mettant en avant les opportunités liées aux ressources naturelles africaines (cobalt, lithium, etc.). La transition énergétique mondiale et la croissance du secteur des véhicules électriques (estimée à 8 000 milliards de dollars d'ici 2025) offrent une chance unique pour l'Afrique d'accélérer son intégration économique et sa transition verte
Country Profiles on Digital Trade Regulatory Integration: Seychelles
No full textThe document provides a country profile on Seychelles' digital trade regulatory integration, focusing on digital services trade restrictions and measures related to digital trade integration. It assesses Seychelles' regulatory regime across various pillars, including infrastructure, electronic transactions, payment systems, intellectual property, and other barriers. Key findings highlight the need for improved data protection laws, cross-border data flow regulations, and participation in international treaties to enhance digital trade. Seychelles has made significant progress in internet infrastructure and payment systems, but challenges remain in e-commerce and broadband access in remote areas
Note conceptuelle
No full textLa 12ème Conférence sur le changement climatique et le développement de l’Afrique (CCDA-XII) se tiendra à Abidjan du 30 août au 2 septembre 2024, avec pour thème central "Financer l’adaptation et la résilience au changement climatique en Afrique". Face à l’aggravation des impacts climatiques (sécheresses, inondations, déplacements) et au déficit criant de financements climatiques (seulement 100 milliards de dollars mobilisés sur les 1 300 milliards nécessaires annuellement
Africa sovereign credit rating outlook: 2024 year-end review 10th edition
No full textThe second half of 2024 (2024H2) presented a mixed economic dynamic across African countries. While most countries experienced an economic rebound, driven by improved commodity prices and economic reforms, several others continued to struggle with internal conflicts, political instability and adverse climate conditions. The 2024H2 period witnessed an increase in positive rating actions than downgrades and negative outlooks, as was the case in the first half of 2024 (2024H1). There were more positive changes in outlooks and rating upgrades. Eleven countries had their ratings upgraded or experienced a positive change in outlook from negative to stable or from stable to positive. The dominant sentiment towards positive rating actions reflects growing optimism about Africa’s political and economic prospects. S&P Global Ratings had the highest number of rating activities in Africa during the period 2024H2, taking rating actions on 13 countries – 4 downgrades, 4 upgrades, 4 negative changes in outlook and 1 positive change in outlook
Ordre du jour provisoire
No full textLe présent document s’agit de la a neuvième session de la Commission africaine de statistique et de la dixième réunion du Comité régional Afrique de l’Initiative des Nations Unies sur la gestion de l’information géospatiale à l’échelle mondiale. La clôture conjointe de la neuvième session de la Commission africaine de statistique et de la dixième réunion du Comité régional Afrique de l’Initiative des Nations Unies sur la gestion de l’information géospatiale à l’échelle mondiale
Strategy and road map to assist countries in modernizing their administrative data systems for statistical purposes
No full textAdministrative data sources have the potential to provide a broad range of benefits for statistical purposes. In addition to supporting the formulation of sector-specific policies and programs and the compilation of national accounts, administrative data from service delivery records and registers can have other uses. They can replace surveys, in whole or in part, provide an alternative source for statistics, sampling bases and bases for extrapolating survey results, and can be a source of stratification variables and auxiliary variables. Furthermore, they can be used to improve coverage and timeliness, validate surveys and link domains. The use of administrative data for official statistics in Africa remains very limited, however, and census and survey sources continue to play a central role in statistical systems and the production of statistics. There is a growing need to leverage, transform and modernize administrative data and sources across national statistical systems to meet the current and emerging data requirements to measure, monitor and report progress made in achieving development objectives. The present report includes a review of the main obstacles to the use of administrative data sources and statistics, along with a strategy for the modernization of administrative data systems, including a road map for improving the use of administrative data in statistical processes