Tag: Global economy
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04 May 20 NewsThe Bureau of the Council of Ministers of the AfCFTA will convene a virtual meeting on Wednesday to discuss AfCFTA implementation issues and a trade response to COVID-19. Senior of...
COVID-19 in Africa – some reflections on trade matters
04 May 20 NewsReality check
Poverty, inequality and exclusion are key factors contributing to the devastating effects of COVID-19 on all African countries. Issues like fragile healthcare system...
A new normal: UN lays out roadmap to lift economies and save jobs after COVID-19
04 May 20 NewsThere will be no return to the “old normal,” governments must act to create a new economy and more jobs.
The urgent health crisis that is COVID-19 has created a historic reces...
COVID-19: Using economic stimulus to reduce the long-term hunger impact
04 May 20 NewsBeyond the COVID-19 health emergency, a recession looms, and countries ought to take measures now to soften the longer-term impacts on hunger and food insecurity, a new FAO po...
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28 Apr 20 NewsDiarise: South Africa’s March merchandise trade statistics will be released on Thursday
Selected submissions to the US Trade Representative ahead of negotiations on the proposed...
South African tourism and the coronavirus pandemic
28 Apr 20 BlogSA tourism heads for bleak winter and beyond
Worldwide lock-downs in response to the coronavirus pandemic have hit the tourism industry especially hard. There have been no partial...
COVID-19 Trade and trade-related measures in Africa
27 Apr 20 NewsCountry Policy Tracker
tralac is monitoring trade-related policy responses to the Coronavirus global pandemic. Below is a list of COVID-19 trade and trade-related measures be...
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24 Apr 20 NewsPeter Fabricius: Africa’s free trade agreement gets locked down for the year (ISS, Daily Maverick)
The AfCFTA has become the latest in the many casualties of the devastating cor...
COVID-19 is a matter of life and debt, global deal needed
24 Apr 20 NewsThe coronavirus pandemic hits developing countries at a time when they have already been struggling with unsustainable debt burdens for many years, as well as with rising health ne...
President Cyril Ramaphosa: South Africa’s response to Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
23 Apr 20 NewsMy Fellow South Africans,
It has been exactly seven weeks since the first case of the coronavirus was confirmed in our country.
Since then, all our lives have changed in fu...
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23 Apr 20 NewsDiarise: UNCTAD’s eWeek (27 April - 1 May)
The programme features two high-level dialogues, one donor roundtable; and a set of webinars to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic is i...
WTO report finds growing number of export restrictions in response to COVID-19 crisis
23 Apr 20 NewsEighty countries and customs territories so far have introduced export prohibitions or restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the WTO Secre...
President Ramaphosa: Unified Africa can curb COVID-19
23 Apr 20 NewsOnly a unified and coordinated response offers Africa the best possible chance of containing the COVID-19 outbreak.
To achieve this, the continent’s leading business people will...
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22 Apr 20 NewsErastus Mwencha, Tom Pengelly: The UK must do all it can to keep trade out of Africa flowing (tralac, The Telegraph)
Covid-19 has now spread to all corners of Africa and, as the r...
The UK must do all it can to keep trade out of Africa flowing
22 Apr 20 NewsThe increasing calls for more economic protectionism spell disaster for Africa – and the UK must use its new freedom to rebut them
Covid-19 has now spread to all corn...
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21 Apr 20 NewsTomorrow: President Ramaphosa engages African business leaders on the impact of COVID19
Members of the AU Bureau, other invited Heads of State and/or Government, the African Centr...
UN issues appeal to bolster COVID-19 ‘logistics backbone’ or response could stutter to a halt
21 Apr 20 NewsThe heads of major UN humanitarian agencies and offices have launched an urgent appeal for $350 million to support global aid hubs to help those most at risk during the COVID-19 pa...
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20 Apr 20 NewsThe G20’s action on debt is an important first step; now for the hard part (The Africa Report)
A commentary by Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Donald Kaberuka, Louise Mushikiwabo, ...
Decisive action in an unprecedented crisis
18 Apr 20 NewsThe world is experiencing unprecedented challenges from COVID-19 – the coronavirus pandemic – that could erase development gains for many countries. The pandemic has profoundly...
World Bank Group and IMF mobilize partners in the fight against COVID-19 in Africa
18 Apr 20 NewsThe World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund on Friday convened African leaders, bilateral partners, and multilateral institutions to spur faster action on COVID-19 respons...