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On 29 June, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews, on behalf of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, attended the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Afr...

Over 60 million people affected by El Niño, many more highly vulnerable to La Niña’s likely knock-on effect Combined efforts to prevent further human suffering, strengthen res...

FAO’s new State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report urges more work to rein in overfishing Global per capita fish consumption has risen to above 20 kilograms a year for th...

Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States must establish more joint investments on strategic energy and water projects to promote region energy and water security...

Extension of Call for Evidence The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty (APPG-TOP) is undertaking an inquiry into the UK’s Africa Free Trade Initiative (AFTi), ...

Foreign companies and armed groups are profiting from an illegal trade in gold in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo despite international regulations intended to clean up the se...

The selection: Wednesday, 6 July 2016 Profiled regional integration, development cooperation updates: Strategy for Sweden’s regional development cooperation in Sub-Saharan Afri...

Regional governments have been urged to invest in capacity building of technocrats involved in international trade negotiations to enhance their skills and ensure they bargain for ...

The cost of moving crude oil by pipeline from Lokichar to Mombasa seaport is set to go up by 68 per cent after Uganda pulled out of a joint infrastructure deal with Kenya, a new te...

Automation and integration result in reduced errors, saved time, and execution with minimal effort Even in the earliest history of the logistics industry, traders operating across...

On 22 June 2016, the Swedish Government adopted two new strategies for regional development cooperation: in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia and the Pacific Region. Sub-Saharan Afri...

Fully harnessing the potential of services and inter-linkages between the services sector and the economy as a whole calls for policy coherence and a holistic approach to services ...

E-commerce can play a pivotal role in fostering growth and raising living standards, particularly for developing countries, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told a workshop organi...

Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs), and in particular technical regulations, are here to stay. Diversity of effects calls for a new policy paradigm. Trade costs matter A large number of ...

The selection: Tuesday, 5 July 2016 Trade-Related Developments: report to the Trade Policy Review Body from the Director-General (WTO) The number of trade remedy investigations i...

Too often, government leaders fail to adopt and implement policies that they know are necessary for sustained economic development. Political constraints can prevent leaders from ...

Aiming to promote poverty alleviation and economic growth in poorest countries The Office of the United States Trade Representative announced on 30 June 2016 the outcome of the Ob...

This trade-monitoring report reviews trade-related developments during the period from 16 October 2015 to 15 May 2016. During this seven-month period, there seems to have been a re...

High-level session closes productive Africa Carbon Forum 2016 Success tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development in Africa will take finance, cooperation and re...

Uganda is in the process of finalizing the development of its strategic plan that will see the country establishing 10 free trade zones by 2020.  “Our target is to set up t...