Statement by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh at the third conference of African Ministers of Integration (COMAI III)
Statement by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA at the Third Conference of African Ministers of Integration (COMAI III). Mr. Janneh, on his remarks highlighted that, African countries continue to face formidable economic challenges, including the management of current high oil and food prices. Moreover, there is still no clear evidence that recent growth has effectively reduced poverty or created decent jobs for our rapidly growing labour force. We therefore need to fully harness regional resources as well as scale up public and private sector investments in order to maintain and sustain this positive trend in growth as well as achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Africa is making considerable progress in its efforts to integrate. Efforts are being made to harmonize policies while improvements have been made in the areas of trade, macroeconomic polices, infrastructure, and ICTs. Several RECs have also taken steps to improve their institutions to accelerate the process of sub-regional integration and most of them have adopted policies that would take them to a deeper phase of integration by becoming free trade areas, common markets, customs unions or monetary unions. ECA's sub-regional offices continues to be strengthened as an integral part of our strategy for promoting regional integration in the continent and they have developed multiyear programmes of work with their respective regional economic communities.
| Format: | Speech biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2008-05
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/47251 |
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