Productive Capacities

The country’s nascent creative industries hold vast potential to help diversify its oil-dependent economy. To do so, greater investment and policy support are indispensable.

With abundant resources and growing consumer market, Africa can become a prominent manufacturing destination for tech-intensive industries and a key link in global supply chains.

President Ruto: "We strongly believe that UNCTAD is a strategic partner for Kenya."

Countries can use the new generation Productive Capacities Index to look beyond gross domestic product as a metric for economic progress.

The world’s most vulnerable economies need urgent global action as current crises threaten to reverse decades of development gains.

Targeted policy strategies and closer cooperation with other developing countries are essential to boosting the country’s resilience to economic shocks.

New report says COP27 is an opportunity to accelerate action to achieve mutually beneficial climate and development goals in the world's most vulnerable countries.

By Paul Akiwumi, Director for Africa and Least Developed Countries, UNCTAD and Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director, Enhanced Integrated Framework

By Paul Akiwumi, Director for Africa and Least Developed Countries, UNCTAD

By Paul Akiwumi and Chukwuka Onyekwena