Transcript The Measurement Challenge and Prospects

Statistics
Theme
Accelerating Africa’s growth and development to meet the MDGs:
Emerging Challenges and the Way forward
The Measurement Challenge and Prospects
Conference of African Ministers of Finance Planning and Economic
Development
Fortieth Session of the Commission
Pali Lehohla
Statistician-General, South Africa
ECA Addis Ababa 29 April 2007
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Organistion of the presentation
•Key areas of ECA Repositioning and their character
•Promoting regional integration and Economic cooperation
•Meeting Africa’s special needs
•Statistics and relevance to issue papers
•Review of intergovernmental machinery
•Aid for trade: Emerging issues and challenges
•Overview of economic and social developments in Africa 2006
•Prospects for the future and Recommendations
•Tools for understanding MDGs
•Tools for the management of trade
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Key areas of ECA Repositioning and
their character
Results area
Enablers
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Regional integration
and economic
cooperation
• Governance and • All regions of Africa
public
administration
North Africa
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Food security and
sustainable
development
• Information
science and
technology
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Gender equality
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Economic
development
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Social development
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Where it happens
West Africa
Central Africa
• Trade
Eastern Africa
• Statistics
Southern Africa
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Key Areas of ECA Repositioning: Why
does Africa continue to live to eat and
not eat to live? 47% of h/h expenditure
Results area
Evidence or Statistics
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Regional integration
and economic
cooperation
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Africa does not trade within itself. Currently
and historically earnings on oil and commodity
booms are from outside Africa even when
Africa produces and consumes such products
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Food security and
sustainable
development
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Africa spends 47% of the rewards of its effort
on food without even achieving food security.
It has no time to focus on enablers
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Gender equality
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Africa fails to deploy its human resources
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Economic
development
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Africa is possibly three decades behind the
world as far as MDG achievement is concerned
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Social development
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Africa is possibly three decades behind the
world as far as MDG achievement is concerned
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Key Areas of ECA Repositioning:
Should Africa continue to live to eat and
not eat to live? Opportunities
Results area
Evidence or Statistics
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Regional integration •
and economic
•
cooperation
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Food security and
sustainable
development
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2.1 trillion US$ equivalent is spent on food. Africa
fails to deploy its human resources. Further
production and trading opportunities
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Gender equality
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Economic
development
Africa labour participation can be increased by
taking advantage of production prospects from inter
Africa trade
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Africa can accelerate achievement of MDGs by
focusing on how it produces what it consumes and
prospects for trade and increasing production
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Social development
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Africa is home to almost 1 billion people
Household Expenditure is about 4.3 trillion US$
equivalent. South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria account
for 50% of hh expenditure and 30% of the population.
Trading opportunities
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Prospects for the future and Recommendations
Statistics
Results area
Evidence or Statistics
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Regional integration
and economic
cooperation
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Africa will need to use statistics to understand and
deploy its resources optimally for achieving regional
integration. The ICP and the compilation of PPPs
and achieving universal count in 2010 round give
good prospects and countries should fund these
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Food security and
sustainable
development
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Africa should engage in more analysis of the data
and information that countries are increasingly
putting at its disposal
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Gender equality
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Economic
development
Spatial analysis for understanding the impact of
infrastructure on social and economic development
as brought about by exchange in goods and services
amongst individuals, business and states is crucial
to keep Africa on track on these key results areas
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Social development
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Africa must focus on enablers to achieve its
development goals
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