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The selection: Friday, 3 June 2016 Featured tweet, by @sdonnan: I’m heading to London next week for our inaugural @FT World Trade Symposium. The hip place to be for trade wonks....

Rwanda has been listed as the most improved country in the 2016 Africa Prosperity report by a UK-based think tank, Legatum Institute. The report, released on Wednesday, shows that...

The prevalence of cross-border competition problems has compelled competition authorities in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to cooperate in the enforcemen...

Mukhisa Kituyi caught global headlines when he became the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) back in September 2013. Dr...

OECD Ministers concluded their annual Council Meeting on 2 June 2016 by confirming their governments’ international commitments to tackle some of the major economic, social and e...

The selection: Thursday, 2 June 2016 Underway in Stockholm: WCO Europe workshop on the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. Update: the evaluation of WTO trade...

The 8th Summit of Heads of State of Government of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group concluded today with a renewed commitment to rally together to contribute more effec...

An analysis prepared by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade On 3 April 2014, Heads of State and Governments of Africa and of the European Union gathered at t...

The global economy is stuck in a low-growth trap that will require more coordinated and comprehensive use of fiscal, monetary and structural policies to move to a higher growth pat...

The Senegalese Minister for African Integration and Good Governance, Khadim Diop, has hailed the remarkable progress this year by ECOWAS in the areas of regional integration, democ...

Busia border point has fallen behind the volumes, speed and compliance targets set by the Mombasa Port Community Charter, putting the border town on the spot as industry players lo...

The selection: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 Launching today, at the AERC conference: ‘Made in Africa: learning to compete in industry’ Concluded yesterday: Kenya trade policy and E...

Chinese companies are set to scale up their investments on the African continent and play a bigger part in helping Africa achieve higher and more sustained economic growth. This w...

Declining productivity growth and rising inequality are two of the biggest obstacles to improved economic performance, according to a new OECD report. The Productivity-Inclusivene...

SA records a R430m trade surplus for April South Africa recorded a second consecutive trade surplus in April even as exports of precious metals and stones and other mineral produc...

This paper assesses the export-oriented clothing industry in the five main sub-Saharan African (SSA) clothing exporter countries (Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya, Lesotho and Swazilan...

Submission from the Cairns Group to the 80th Meeting of the Committee on Agriculture (CoA) in June 2016 At the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) Ministers adopted the histori...

Trade has been growing more slowly since the Great Recession not only because global GDP growth is lower, but also because trade itself has become less responsive to GDP. The cause...

Muhammadu Buhari took office as Nigeria’s president a year ago on a wave of optimism that the ex-military ruler could revive a nation battered by falling oil prices and deca...

A fact that hasn’t been grabbing international headlines lately: Africa is home to about 18 million forcibly displaced people, more than one-fourth of the total worldwide. The m...