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Member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will make a leap into the African continent with their first joint trade mission and business expo, the inaugural Afr...

While Africa is losing its share in the global fish trade market, even trading relatively less within the continent itself, intra-regional trade in fish on the other hand is encour...

A new report, Climate and Disaster Resilience Financing in Small Island States shows that, in spite of increasing climate risks, only 14 percent of development aid for vu...

The selection: Thursday, 10 November 2016 G20 trade measures monitoring report (WTO) The WTO’s sixteenth monitoring report on Group of 20 trade measures shows that the number o...

The WTO’s sixteenth monitoring report on Group of 20 (G20) trade measures, issued on 10 November, shows that the number of trade-restrictive measures applied by G20 economies rem...

The Malawi Economic Monitor (MEM) provides an analysis of economic and structural development issues in Malawi. This edition of the MEM was published in October 2016. It follows on...

Rwanda is in the process of negotiating with Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) an agreeable mode of contribution of membership funds to meet cost of operations a...

Africa’s “Growth Miracle” in the 21st century has reversed a long standing narrative of pessimism about the region It has emboldened hope for the future. GDP ...

Robots and industrialization in developing countries (pdf, UNCTAD) The current question is therefore: now that the commodity bonanza is over, capital flows are reversing and China...

The increased use of robots threatens millions of jobs in developing countries, by undermining the advantage of low wages and facilitating the “reshoring” of industries back to...

The WTO’s latest World Trade Outlook Indicator (WTOI) suggests that global trade will pick up slightly in the fourth quarter of 2016. Air freight in particular has shown quite st...

Less than a year after the World Bank unveiled and began supporting implementation of its ambitious Africa Climate Business Plan (ACBP) during COP21 in Paris, African countrie...

At a time when the global manufacturing sector is undergoing a structural transformation, India must retool its factories for a digitally-driven future if it wants to fulfil its am...

Speech by Deputy Minister of Finance Mcebisi Jonas at the 2016 ABSIP Financial Services Sector Conference, 8 November 2016, Johannesburg Before I begin with my opening remarks, I ...

Chicken farming is a “low-hanging fruit” for Namibia to create employment in the short and medium term. “This is not the time to learn, this is the time to implement,” say...

The World Meteorological Organization has published a detailed analysis of the global climate 2011-2015 – the hottest five-year period on record – and the increasingly visible ...

The selection: Tuesday, 8 November 2016 The two-day Invest in Namibia conference began today in Windhoek: a preview Today’s featured tweets: @Trade_Kenya: Meeting on validatio...

Seaborne shipments passed 10 billion tons for the first time ever in 2015, up 2.1 per cent from 9.8 billion tons the year before, the UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2016 ...

Since the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21 in December 2015, the world has seen increased ambition on climate change. Almost every country in the world has now set national cli...

Improvements in ease of starting a business, registering property, trading across borders and enforcing contracts saw Rwanda make significant improvement in the latest World Bank D...