Experts converge on Eastern Africa's foremost growth and development challenges
The 20th Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) opened here Monday with Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the Devolution and Planning Ministry, Mwanji Kiunjuiri, urging African experts to find solutions to problems hindering the continent’s growth and development. Speaking during the opening session, Kiunjuri said East Africa in particular had some of the fastest growing economies but its youth continued to seek greener pastures outside the continent, sometimes at great risk to their lives. Kiunuiri asked experts attending the meeting to stretch their minds and develop strategies towards addressing some of the issues facing the continent, including why several resource-rich countries in Africa remained at the bottom of the international league-table in human development. The ECA Eastern Africa Subregional Office Director, Antonio Pedro, said the ICE, which this year is discussing institutions, decentralization and structural transformation in Eastern Africa, comes at the right time for experts on the continent to see how they can help African economies to be structurally transformed and reduce their dependency on commodities and exposure to their associated vulnerabilities and uncertainties.
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2016-02
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/36478 |
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