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Joint communication from the WTO and OECD Secretariats The Sixth Global Review of Aid for Trade, under the theme “Promoting Connectivity”, will be held at the WTO in mid-...

South Africa is set to reinforce its position as a regional economic hub, as it prepares to open a regional office, which would channel funding drawn from the New Development Bank ...

The selection: Wednesday, 27 July 2016 Featured infographic, @GATFnews: Mexico becomes the 87th country to ratify the @wto TradeFacilitation Agreement. Only 22 more to go. Global...

Growth-poverty and inequality nexus: overcoming barriers to sustainable development African economies have grown substantially over the past decade, but  poverty and inequali...

Experts from the African Union Commission (AUC), supported by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), met on t...

Kenya is the only country among EAC partners which does not enjoy the Least Developed Country (LDC) status. Kenya now finds itself in a tricky diplomatic situation following refus...

‘People do not eat GDP’: Even as the economies of EAC member states have been recording considerable growth rates, this growth has been accompanied by a growth in inequality in...

Trade ministries, just as other parts of government, need to respond to calls from the public and from global leaders for action on major issues. This column argues that armed with...

Oil prices seen higher due to supply disruptions, strong demand in second quarter The World Bank is raising its crude oil price forecast for 2016 to $43 a barrel from $41 dollars ...

The mobile industry in Africa continues to deliver the required connectivity that enables access to a wide range of services addressing various social and economic issues. But...

The fourteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 14) was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 17 to 22 July 2016. The theme of the event was Fr...

The selection: Tuesday, 26 July 2016 Launching today: The State of East Africa Report. Twitter updates: #SOEAR16 AfDB Group’s Industrialisation Strategy for Africa 2016-2025 is...

WTO members need to avoid putting up barriers and “get trade moving again” in order to address slow global economic growth, according to the Director-General’s mid-year repor...

A road Map for scaling up Africa’s economic transformation Africa’s industrialization agenda, one of the Bank Group’s top priorities for the continent’s economic transform...

The Chamber of Mines notes with concern the report published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Trade Mis-invoicing in Primary Commodities in Dev...

Despite playing host to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) conference for the first time in three decades, African delegates left the summit deflated...

The EAC central bank governors have unanimously reiterated the need to rebuild foreign currency reserves and the strengthening of financial sector regulatory frameworks to ensure s...

This paper examines the possible implications for the financial systems of low-income African economies and in particular Tanzania of their stated aspiration to achieve middle-inco...

The selection: Monday, 25 July 2016 Starting today, in Kigali: the first Kenya-Rwanda women trade and business forum (25-28 July) Tomorrow, in Accra: Ghanaian businesses to discu...

The 14th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has finally come to a close with the adoption of two crucial documents that will guide the mandate of the agenc...