Tag: Global economy
US trade policy under President Trump and its implications for Africa
22 Jun 17 PublicationsPresident Donald Trump was elected on a platform that emphasized bringing jobs back to the United States (US) that had been lost to foreign competition. A recent report from the Of...
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20 Jun 17 NewsProfiled trade and regional integration conferences:
Digital Economy, trade and development (21 June, Stockholm)
5th Annual Secretary General’s Forum for Private Sector, Civil...
EU ministers pledge more efforts for Africa partnership
20 Jun 17 NewsEU foreign ministers in Luxembourg Monday (19 June) committed to working closely with their African partners for an “ambitious and successful” EU-Africa summit in Abidjan, Ivor...
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19 Jun 17 NewsThe 5th SACU Summit takes place on Friday in Swaziland. Swaziland as the current Chair of SACU has successfully led a process that facilitated discussions within SACU on the transf...
G20 Africa Partnership Conference: Speech by German Chancellor Angela Merkel
19 Jun 17 NewsG20 Africa Partnership – Investing in a Common Future Conference
On 12-13 June 2017, the German G20 Presidency gathered together Heads of States and Min...
After AGOA: SA must prepare for two-way free trade agreements with US
19 Jun 17 NewsUS Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says America’s relationship with Africa “has to continue its transition from being ‘AID-based’ to ‘TRADE-based’”.
“To that end, h...
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14 Jun 17 NewsUnderway, in Berlin: inaugural ITC/ATI Tax and Development conference, hosted by Germany as part of its G20 Presidency
Related, recent African conference outcomes on illicit finan...
Vision Document for the Asia Africa Growth Corridor: Partnership for Sustainable and Innovative Development
14 Jun 17 NewsThe idea of Asia Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) emerged in the joint declaration issued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in November 2016. The AAGC will...
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13 Jun 17 NewsA selection of updates on the G20 Africa Partnership: Investing in a Common Future
Merkel calls for greater investment in Africa ahead of G20 summit. Underscoring the pressure Afr...
B20 Compact with Africa Recommendations
13 Jun 17 NewsAfrica is a continent of vast opportunities. Despite the high volatility of commodity prices as well as geo-political and geo-economic uncertainties, the continent’s average real...
Merkel’s G20-Africa meet aims to reduce poverty, migrant influx
12 Jun 17 NewsGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts African leaders Monday for a G20 conference aimed at fighting the grinding poverty driving the mass migrant influx to Europe.
The idea is to ...
Africa, Europe are not threats to each other – Kagame
09 Jun 17 NewsAfrican and European countries should work together to foster domestic and global development instead of looking at each other as threats, President Paul Kagame has said.
The...
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08 Jun 17 NewsFeatured tweets, @AdanMohamedCS:
Kenya is set to host the 2nd Commonwealth SME Trade Summit in October 2018. [It] will provide a forum to link Kenyan MSMEs to opportunities in the...
The G20 ‘Compact with Africa’ is not for Africa’s poor: The Finance Framework
08 Jun 17 NewsA key pillar of the G20 Africa Partnership is the ‘Compact with Africa’ (CwA), an initiative within the G20’s finance track, coordinated by the German Federal Minis...
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07 Jun 17 NewsA strong set of event pointers, launches introduces today’s news selection:
Today, is African Border Day: a message from AUC Peace and Security Commissioner, Ambassador Smail Ch...
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06 Jun 17 NewsThe African Statistical Yearbook 2017 is launched (UNECA)
The Yearbook series is a result of joint efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data coll...
ILO head calls for the much needed greening of the world of work
06 Jun 17 NewsGuy Ryder, Director-General of the ILO, has told delegates at the 106th International Labour Conference to build governance that makes migration safe, orderly, and regular.
The Di...
Global growth set to strengthen to 2.7 percent as outlook brightens
05 Jun 17 NewsCommodity exporters gradually recovering from recent low prices
The World Bank forecasts that global economic growth will strengthen to 2.7 percent in 2017 as a pickup in manufact...
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02 Jun 17 NewsA reminder: The ECOWAS Heads of State summit takes place on Sunday
Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (17-19 May): presentations are now available for download
Adva...
Delhi Trade Declaration: Commonwealth leaves no-one behind
02 Jun 17 NewsFrom the heat of Africa to the humidity of India via the arid desert state of Qatar, Sekandi Abdul Karim has made a 3550-mile journey to Delhi. It is his third trip to India this y...