Key Publications

EFTIDTS Publications

• Publication: Cybersecurity for development in the fourth industrial revolution: research report (published in 2025)
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/ea22ed15-ae36-449b-9962-6ee7a2094d8b

• La cybersécurité au service du développement dans la quatrième révolution industrielle : rapport de recherche (published in 2025)
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/0c0afa9f-98d5-419c-95ae-0eb45293219f

• A Framework for Action for the Digital Economy in Africa: Position Paper
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/1396d388-9ea1-4efe-b9c7-1036e067689d  (published in 2024)

• Un cadre d’action pour l’économie numérique en Afrique : document de position (published in 2024)
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/3b6d6e7c-5942-4be5-bcf1-74a08b5b7f45
  https://www.uneca.org/fr/un-cadre-d%E2%80%99action-pour-l%E2%80%99%C3%A9conomie-num%C3%A9rique-en-afrique-document-de-position

• Publication: Policy position paper towards a digital economy policy framework for Africa: policy paper (published in 2024)
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/1396d388-9ea1-4efe-b9c7-1036e067689d 

• Publication: Guidelines for a model law on computer-enabled and computer-related crimes in African Union member States (published in 2023)
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/19a95286-7ac0-4038-af76-5a59b18b88d3

• Publication: Science, technology and innovation policy design and implementation guide: towards a framework (published in 2023)
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/c9eb25d2-c0e3-4077-ae56-82022c930a14 

• Publication: Advancing entrepreneurial universities in Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana and South Africa (published in 2023)
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/b280440c-c4f8-406e-bb45-65760412f823 

ATPC Publications

• Advancing the Implementation of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area: Proposing Transformative Strategic Actions
  https://www.uneca.org/economic-report-on-africa-2025 

• Greening the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement
  https://www.uneca.org/greening-the-implementation-of-the-african-continental-free-trade-area-agreement

• Country-level Implications of Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement on Inequality and Poverty
  https://www.uneca.org/country-level-implications-of-implementation-of-the-african-continental-free-trade-area-agreement-on

• Digital Trade Regulatory Review for Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean 2024
  https://dtri.uneca.org/assets/data/publications/ECA-ECLAC-ESCAP-2024-RP-Digital-trade-regulatory-review-Asia-Pacific-Arica-Latin-America-Caribbean-2024-en.pdf

• Digital trade regulatory environment: Opportunities for regulatory harmonization in Africa (September 2023)
  https://dtri.uneca.org/assets/data/publications/Digital-trade-regulatory-environment-Opportunities-for-regulatory-harmonization-in-Africa-en.pdf

• Regional Digital Trade Integration Index 2.0: A Guide
  https://dtri.uneca.org/assets/data/publications/ECA-ECLAC-ESCAP-2024-RP-Regional-digital-trade-integration-index-2.0-guide-en.pdf

• Shedding New Light on the Evolving Regulatory Framework for Digital Services Trade (2022)
  https://dtri.uneca.org/assets/data/publications/shedding-new-light-en.pdf

MIS Publications

• Towards a Common Investment Area in the AfCFTA: Levelling the Playing Field for Intra-African Investment
  https://repository.uneca.org/handle/10855/46741

• ECA (2020a), Linkages between double taxation treaties and bilateral investment treaties. Addis Ababa, ECA
  https://repository.uneca.org/handle/10855/43673

• ECA (2020b), Drivers for boosting intra-African investment flows towards Africa's transformation. Addis Ababa, ECA
  https://repository.uneca.org/handle/10855/43660 

RITD Publications

• AfCFTA what you need to know
  https://www.uneca.org/afcfta-what-you-need-to-know

• Assessing Regional Integration in Africa XI: Delivering on the African Economic Community
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/38e20504-772d-41b0-ba9e-a0fc4ae07f92

• Implementing the AfCFTA Agreement and Impacts for Africa’s Regional Value Chains
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/05c140f4-a5ad-4001-aaad-e37dcf830514

• Free movement of persons for trade: towards an accelerated ratification of the African Union Protocol to the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community Relating to Free Movement of Persons, Right of Residence and Right of Establishment, in support of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area: Policy research paper
  https://repository.uneca.org/entities/publication/d340dd3b-bc86-429f-993d-5cf8e5e25bfe