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The Group of 20 (G20) Leaders’ Summit, which concluded in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday, has recorded positive outcomes for global development, with significant benefits for the ...

Taking stock of aid for trade in Africa over the last decade, how can the targeting and delivery of this development assistance be improved to help achieve the continent’s struct...

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), in consultation with the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC), has announced the initiation of an out-of-cycle review of...

This study evaluates the economic impact of the proposed Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) on consumption, industrial production, and trade, across the 26 African countries. The st...

Diarise: Southern Africa Civil Society Forum (13-17 August, Johannesburg); China-Africa Investment Forum (27-28 November, Marrakesh) UNCTAD SG Mukhisa Kituyi confirmed for a secon...

The leaders of the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank urged G-20 leaders on 6 July to reinvigorate trade by reducing trade barriers and cu...

On June 26, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund concluded the Article IV consultation with South Africa. Living conditions have ameliorated substantially ...

Ministers from 26 African countries are meeting in Kampala today (Friday, 7 July) in another attempt to see through overdue negotiations on a larger free trade area covering three ...

The economic pole of global growth has moved over the past few years from China to neighboring India, where it is likely to stay over the coming decade, according to new growth pro...

tralac’s Weekly e-Newsletter is posted: SACU, Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2015/2016 (and more) Concluding today, in Maputo: WIDER Developmen...

Four out of 10 international tourists in Africa come from the continent itself, according to the new UNCTAD Economic Development in Africa Report 2017: Tourism for Transformative a...

Members of the European Parliament are expected to pass on Thursday, 6 July the new European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD), a key element to a plan to raise as ...

Nearly sixty years ago, a little-known band called the Beatles arrived in Hamburg, got a haircut, recorded their first song, and found their sound. Taking a cue from the...

Malawi faces various economic challenges including: low productivity; narrow and raw export base with high reliance on few commodities; lack of alternative energy sources; and poor...

The NEPAD Agency, in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Regional Strategic Analysis Knowledge Support ...

When Donald Trump looks at Africa, what does he see? When Donald Trump was elected, almost no one in the US was thinking about Africa. People knew the swingeing State Department a...

Starting tomorrow, in Dar es Salaam: SADC DFI Network bi-annual meetings Presentations, documents: UNCTAD’s Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Protection Law and Pol...

To build robust domestic and continental supply chains and facilitate seamless flow of goods and services across Africa’s borders, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is...

The 29th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union has come to a close after 9 days, during which various statutory organs of the Union met to get status updates and make...

East African countries have agreed to remove the special treatment given to “sensitive goods” and impose a Common External Tariff on them starting from July 1, 2018. According...