Tag: Industrial policy
Leapfrogging: The key to Africa’s development?
21 Sep 17 NewsDespite sustained economic growth over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa faces massive challenges and significant gaps in many development outcomes. Although poverty has bee...
Changes in technology and trade disrupting manufacturing-led development
21 Sep 17 NewsNew policies needed to ensure developing countries can ompete
Advances in technology and changing trade patterns are affecting opportunities for export-led manufacturing. Smart au...
Africa needs to increase production and have a skilled manpower to develop productive capacities: UNCTAD panelists
19 Sep 17 NewsTo achieve structural transformation and sustainable development, Africa needs to pay more focus on the need to build its productive capacities.
African Union Commission Deputy Ch...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
15 Sep 17 Newstralac’s Weekly e-newsletter is posted. Highlights include: Prof Gerard Erasmus asking if the court ruling on the Kenyan elections in Kenya is a precedent for inter-state dispute...
ECA calls Uganda to make industrial policy more effective
15 Sep 17 NewsIn the last two decades, Uganda’s economy has been performing impressively and has managed to reduce, by over half, the proportion of people living in poverty. However, in 2016 t...
United Nations urges end to austerity, calls for ambition to rebalance global economy and achieve prosperity for all
15 Sep 17 NewsThe global economy appears stuck on its path to recovery. A new UNCTAD report, the Trade and Development Report, 2017: Beyond Austerity – Towards a Global New Deal, sets out...
ICE 2017: ECA praised for “excellent initiative” in Central Africa
14 Sep 17 NewsCameroon’s Minister of Trade, Mr. Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, has described the upcoming meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts for Central Africa (ICE 2017) as...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
13 Sep 17 NewsFeatured trade finance tweet, from @AUTradeIndustry:
In 2014, SMEs constituted more than 80% of enterprises in Africa, but they accounted for only 28% of banks’ trade finance po...
Dti pushes ahead with localisation to boost domestic growth
13 Sep 17 NewsSouth Africa is working towards more effective monitoring and enforcement of localisation of products and compliance with local content requirements, Trade and Industry M...
Cement wars: How Dangote price cuts drive competitors into loss territory
13 Sep 17 NewsThe entry of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, into the cement business in Tanzania has rocked the industry in the region, with cement manufacturers looking at huge losses.
T...
Clothing, Textile, Footwear and Leather sectors convene Conference to find responses to SA’s downgrade to junk status
12 Sep 17 NewsClothing sector seeks urgent solution to downgrades impact
Labour and business in the clothing, textile, footwear and leather (CTFL) sectors are deeply concerned about the impact ...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
11 Sep 17 NewsStarting today, in Dar es Salaam: Tanzania oil and gas congress. A DW commentary: Gas and oil key in East African integration
UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board began its 64th...
COMESA Industrialization Strategy adopted
11 Sep 17 NewsCOMESA Ministers responsible for industry have adopted the regional Industrialization strategy which defines key interventions at both regional and national levels to speed up indu...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
08 Sep 17 Newstralac’s Weekly e-newsletter is posted: The battle over safeguards on poultry imports from the EU continues
Profiled African trade and industrial policy events:
(i) Growing bus...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
07 Sep 17 NewsFeatured tweet, @MaureenAAchieng (IOM Ethiopia Chief of Mission and Representative to AU, UNECA, IGAD): @AUC_DPA Continental free movement in Africa is a step closer after 3 days o...
Unlocking the potential of the power sector for industrialization and poverty alleviation in Nigeria
07 Sep 17 NewsNigeria is the biggest economy in Africa, and now, has the potential to play a more active role in the global economy than in the past. Actualizing this potential will depend large...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
05 Sep 17 NewsProfiled African trade, regional integration, infrastructure events:
(i) Update on the outcome of third meeting of the CFTA Technical Working Groups (20 August – 1 September, Du...
Smart industrialisation through trade in the context of Africa’s transformation
05 Sep 17 NewsThis brief, produced by the ODI in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, explores how the idea of using trade and trade policy to support industrialis...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
04 Sep 17 NewsStarting, today in Accra: ACBF’s 26th Board of Governors Meeting on the theme Enhancing access to and absorption of development resources in Africa.
The Atlantic Council launche...
Press statement in support of Swaziland’s eligibility status for AGOA
04 Sep 17 NewsThe Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA) representing 9 000 workers in the textile and apparel industry, the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA) representing 40 00...