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Joint statement on the fight against illicit financial flows by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and Thabo Mbeki, Chair of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from...

The President of the United Nations General Assembly on 21 April 2016 called on the international community to take action on the new UN sustainable development agenda in order to ...

Group urges ‘change of mindset’ to make future outcomes more substantive Affirming its strong commitment to the full and timely implementation of the 2015 Addis Ababa Action A...

Speech by Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, at the Budget Vote on Economic Development, 21 April 2016 During 2015, the economy for the first time crossed the R...

International trade is a powerful force of societal transformation. Trade agreements not only stimulated trade; they have improved the quality and integrity of domestic economic an...

Leaders set landmark global goals for pricing carbon pollution; Call for faster action on carbon pricing to deliver on Paris climate change agreement Six heads of state and govern...

The weak understanding of regional framework, bribery and corruption, delays of transit goods and un-receipted charges are among the reasons why the Economic Community of West Afri...

The selection: Thursday, 21 April 2016 Next week’s profiled trade and investment policy conferences: In Accra: CABRI's Policy Dialogue on revenue management in the extractives ...

UNCTAD will be holding its fourteenth session in Nairobi from 17-22 July 2016 under the theme “Translating the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into action”. As part of ...

The first edition of the report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development maps out the commitments and action items contained in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and...

DTI Budget Vote Address delivered by Dr Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry, in the National Assembly, 20 April 2016 It is common cause that we meet at a time when our econ...

The United Nations and African countries are working as one to support the continent’s people in realizing their hopes and aspirations for peace and development, which will requi...

Trade fell dramatically during the 2008 financial crisis and has grown sluggishly since then. But this overall trend obscures an important fact: trade in services has proven remark...

The selection: Wednesday, 20 April 2016 tralac’s contribution to the Inquiry on the UK’s Africa Free Trade Initiative Highlighted recommendations: i) support new approaches t...

The Trade Law Centre (tralac) was invited to contribute to the Inquiry on the UK’s Africa Free Trade Initiative (AFTi); which took place on 19 April 2016. Trudi Hartzenberg ackn...

2015 was an important year for international development, with governments agreeing to the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the next fifteen years. It was also a critic...

National financing strategies will play a decisive role in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been agreed and the world ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank Group (WBG)...

Madagascar’s economy did not rebound as expected in 2015, posting an estimated 3% growth that falls far short of initial projections, according to the new economic update for the...

Decisions taken at African Ministerial Conference on the Environment set stage for brighter future for continent Ministers of environment and representatives of over 45 African co...