Africa’s growth over two decades has been real but not transformative, driven more by labour, capital, and commodities than productivity and innovation, said Claver Gatete, the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa.

Mr Gatete said this following the 58th session of the ECA and the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development meetings, which began on Saturday in Tangier, Morocco.

In a statement by ECA’s communications section, Mr Gatete said too little labour had moved from subsistence agriculture into higher-productivity sectors. Read more