Policy Briefs
The UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) has since 2010 been producing policy briefs, containing concise summary and informative analyses on specific questions related to Africa’s socio-economic development, in cooperation with the NEPAD Agency and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) .
In line with the Office’s advocacy mandate, the briefs are geared at raising awareness on critical issues of relevance to Africa’s development and courses of action on them. Policy briefs have so far addressed:
- Official development assistance,
- Trade,
- External debt,
- Foreign direct investment, and
- Infrastructure development.
The policy briefs are mainly targeted at high-level African policymakers and development partners, permanent representatives to the United Nations, journalists, academia and the wider public. The briefs have also been useful in informing Member States’ negotiating positions on key issues on the intergovernmental agenda.
Factsheets and Policy Briefs by OSAA
All links below will open documents in PDF format.
- Financing Africa's Infrastructure Development (2015)
- Main Economic Indicators (2014)
- Main Economic Indicators (2011)
- Microfinance in Africa (2011)
- Africa's Terms of Trade after the Crisis (2011)
- Africa's Progress Towards the MDGs (2011)
- Tax and Development in Africa (2011)
- Main Economic Indicators (December 2010)
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa (2010)
- External Debt in Africa (2010)
- Infrastructure in Africa (2010)
- Aid to Africa (2010)