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Last year witnessed the culmination of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the launch of a new global development agenda – the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Accor...

Global growth continues, but at a sluggish pace that leaves the world economy more exposed to risks, says the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO). The WEO&n...

Regional courts are increasingly becoming important in entrenching rules-based governance for regional trade and integration and ensuring the protection of private party rights. D...

Ministers and heads of delegations of OECD’s 34 members and partner countries met in Paris for the first time in six years to explore challenges and opportunities facin...

No country alone can solve the development challenges of a continent made up of 54 countries. Conflicts spill over boundaries. Disease is not stopped by border controls. And climat...

Africa now has the ability to feed itself and the world. This is not only a possibility but an absolute necessity if our continent is to meet the challenge of high and inclusive gr...

Trade not aid. It’s an idea we hear quite a bit in reference to Africa. Last summer, when Barack Obama addressed the African Union – the first US president to do so...

Document submitted by Benin on behalf of the LDC Group to the Formal Meeting of the Committee on Rules of Origin, taking place on 22 April 2016 Paragraph 31 of 10th WTO Ministeria...

The selection: Tuesday, 12 April 2016 Profiled trade and development conferences now underway: In Ibadan: the 'Africa Feeding Africa' conference In Arusha: the EAC-USAID Region...

Low commodity prices continue to impede growth Amid falling commodity prices and continuing weakness in global growth, Sub-Saharan Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth d...

On March 16, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Botswana. After a rapid recovery from the 2009 downturn,...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) suggest that countries achieve sustainable development in all three dimensions, that is, ec...

Fifty-one of the 68 companies that were lent money by the World Bank’s private lending arm in 2015 to finance investments in sub-Saharan Africa use tax havens, Oxfam revealed on ...

Creating a Sustainable Future for African Think Tanks in Support of Agenda 2063 and Sustainable Development Goals Preamble We, the African think tanks, have met in Victoria F...

On 21 July 2016, UNCTAD and Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) will host a joint side event at UNCTAD 14. The panel will discuss linkages between trade facilitation reforms and regional...

More than 200 research and development partners and experts will meet at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria, in a three-day workshop to dis...

On a sweltering Kenyan morning on the outskirts of a national wildlife park, Chinese and local workers maneuver a massive concrete rail-bridge structure onto towering support piers...

IBRD/IDA* Support to top $150 billion between FY13 and FY16 As developing countries continue to face strong economic headwinds, demand for lending from the World Bank has risen to...

The selection: Monday, 11 April 2016 The SACU-Mercosur FTA entered into force on 1 April: a Swazi perspective (Times of Swaziland) Textile companies of Swaziland which were hard ...

Textile companies of Swaziland which were hard hit by the loss of the lucrative duty free market under African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) of the US Government, have fou...