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A ten-year decline in the openness of economies at all stages of development poses a risk to countries’ ability to grow and innovate, according to The Global Competitivene...

FAO’s Committee on Agriculture focuses on innovation to achieve food security and sustainable development The agricultural sector must transform itself not only to achieve food ...

The slowdown in trade growth since 2012 is largely because of weak growth, but also fewer trade deals and a recent uptick in protectionism, a new IMF study finds. Further trade ref...

Many in Cameroon and the wider region worry that the unilateral signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement was a bad decision. Regional integration in Central Africa h...

Ten years is a very short time in the global economy, and by all accounts a decade is all that is left of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). While the United States’ ...

With strong bipartisan support in Congress, the Obama administration signed into law last year a ten-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the foundation...

The African Development Bank will hold an investors’ roadshow to attract as much as $7.6 billion in financing for a railway line linking Tanzania’s port in Dar es Salaam with n...

Event listings (Lusaka, Ottawa, Johannesburg): Today, in Lusaka: COMESA Business Council consultative meeting on the COMESA Business Visa and Tripartite Regional Dialogue on the M...

World trade will grow more slowly than expected in 2016, expanding by just 1.7%, well below the April forecast of 2.8%, according to the latest WTO estimates. The forecast for 2017...

The fourth African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) General Assembly is scheduled to be held in Durban, South Africa from 3-7 October 2016 as the continent’s heads of tax administ...

UNCTAD’s Global Action Menu for Investment Facilitation is widely welcomed, strongly supported by the investment-development community, and endorsed by policymakers worldwide. Th...

Talks are now at an advanced stage to establish the Comesa Business Visa, an initiative seeking to make it easy for business persons from countries that make up the Common Market f...

Government has launched the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) for Zimbabwe, which requires $2,7 billion to implement in the period 2016 to 2018. Speaking at the la...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat have launched a flagship training programme on the sig...

The selection: Monday, 26 September 2016 Profiled conference listings for this week: Operationalization of Liberia National Trade Facilitation Committee (26-27 Sept, Monrovia), S...

Review of USTR Report on ‘Beyond AGOA’ Talking points by David Luke, Coordinator, ATPC, UNECA at the African Ministerial Consultative Group on AGOA – 15th AGOA For...

The global development landscape witnessed a significant shift in emphasis and commitment in 2015 with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This universal f...

The 2016 Transition Report highlights the need for countries to strengthen capacities for evidence-based policy-making and to improve institutional coordination African countries ...

Executive summary LDC exports of goods and services grew by an annual average of 7.6% over the 2005-2015 period and, thus, slightly more than the exports of other developing econo...

Sudan’s economy lags behind many countries in attaining structural change through high productivity sectors such as manufacturing and non-traditional services sectors, according ...