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In just a few years since the G20’s Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) published its initial White Paper, the role that global financial standard-se...

With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in New York and the Paris Agreement on climate change, 2015 has seen great progress in multilateral cooperation on sustainabl...

From gold and diamonds to soft drink concentrates, the following map shows the diverse range of products exported from African economies – while also highlighting an overall re...

The objective of this report is to provide an analytical framework of development co-operation for private sector development (PSD) and a measurement to capture relevant Official D...

The selection: Tuesday, 10 May 2016 The Third Pan-African Capacity Development Forum (CDF3): download the speeches, presentations WEF Kigali meeting to address skills, energy gap...

The World Economic Forum for Africa, scheduled to kick off in Kigali tomorrow, will be an opportunity to create awareness about the anticipated Fourth Industrial Revolution, which ...

Speech by David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF, at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, 9 May 2016 I would like to thank the Strathmore University for a...

African countries can boost growth by cutting tariffs and removing “soft” barriers to trade, while still supporting their industries without completely protecting them. Imagin...

As extreme drought continues to hit much of Sub-Saharan Africa, leaving millions of people in need of emergency assistance, a new report led by the World Bank focuses on interventi...

Painful though it is to say, our continent is being held back. According to UN figures, the share of intra-continental trade in Africa’s over the past decade was only about 11%. ...

Government, labour and business have on Monday agreed to join forces and implement a number of interventions to boost the country’s economy. On Monday, President Jacob Zuma conv...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo convened a meeting of all WTO members on 9 May to discuss advancing negotiations within the Organization with the aim of moving towards identifyin...

Representatives from more than 30 countries, including some of the world’s largest carbon emitters, recently gathered in Lima to move ahead on the carbon pricing policies they sa...

In the fifth issue of the IPA Observer, UNCTAD examines how investment promotion agencies (IPAs), in different locations and circumstances, can contribute to green and sustainable ...

The importance of Africa’s agriculture in contributing to food and nutrition security, poverty reduction and overall economic growth is well documented. However, the task of tran...

The selection: Monday, 9 May 2016 Launching, this week at WEF Africa: the MoveAfrica Initiative (Nepad) The MoveAfrica initiative aims to address the transformation of the trans-...

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says there is now an even more pressing need for structural change in the economy, to break out of commodity dependence and m...

The 4th Retreat of the African Union (AU) Executive Council opened on Friday 6 May 2016 in Nairobi, the capital city of the Republic of Kenya. During the Retreat, the Ministers of ...

The NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency on 11 May, 2016 announced the launch of the MoveAfrica Initiative that aims to support the transformation of Africa’s trade by add...

Africa stands at a crossroads. Economic growth has taken root across much of the region. In many countries, exports are booming, foreign investment is on the rise, and dependence...