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Inequality is a universal challenge faced by least-developed, middle-income and developed countries alike, but which can be overcome by political will at national and international...

Addressing the Partnership Forum convened by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), senior United Nations officials on 31 March highlighted the Organization’s critical role...

Created within a year of each other, the World Bank and the United Nations were born out of a shared response to the Second World War. The war created a constituency willing to inv...

French oil giant Total has affirmed its commitment to construct the $4 billion (Sh406 billion) pipeline through Tanga despite the push by Kenya to have Uganda ship its crude oil ...

The selection: Thursday, 31 March 2016 Starting today, in Addis: the 2016 Conference of Ministers on the theme: ‘Towards an integrated and coherent approach to implementation, m...

The Africa We Want – A Shared Strategic Framework for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development Over the past 50 years (1963-2013) Africa focused her collective on ...

Kenya’s economic performance remains solid, with the growth rate expected to improve from 5.6% in 2015 to 5.9% in 2016, according to a new World Bank Group economic report releas...

WTO members clearly remain interested in achieving results in the negotiations on rules, despite the lack of an outcome in the sector during last December’s Nairobi Ministerial C...

Second Global Coal Plant Tracker Report shows risk of excessive investment remains after reported China coal permit suspension On 29 March, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and CoalSw...

Developing countries face a triple challenge of managing a stronger US dollar, China’s economic slowdown and a significantly weaker oil price. China’s economic transition brin...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for February 2016 that recorded a trade deficit of R1.07 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswa...

The Global Infrastructure Forum being organized by multilateral development banks (MDBs) next month in Washington, D.C. comes at an opportune time. The adoption...

China’s transition to a new growth path is contributing to trade volatility today and will shape trade opportunities tomorrow Global trade has been a puzzle lately. In the 2000s...

The selection: Wednesday, 30 March 2016 Featured alerts, commentary: South Africa’s February 2016 trade data will be released tomorrow. Bloomberg consensus sees a compression o...

The ongoing changes in China’s economy may be an opportunity for African countries that now mainly export raw materials and oil, to adapt and diversify exports and move up the va...

This paper examines the extent to which World Trade Organization (WTO) rules impinge on policymakers’ freedom to formulate tax policies. It provides an overview of both the econo...

Oil prices have been persistently low for well over a year and a half now, but as the April 2016 World Economic Outlook will document, the widely anticipated “shot in t...

A rift between Kenya and Tanzania could widen following Uganda’s indecisive position on the $4 billion crude oil pipeline. A week before the meeting between Uganda’s Pre...

Without growing its economy, Africa risks being left behind, unable to create the jobs it needs to reduce poverty Africa needs to grow its economy in order to reduce poverty ...

The 21st Meeting of the COMESA Committee of Governors of Central Banks was held from 18-19 November 2015 in Lusaka, Zambia. Governors reviewed the activities that were undertaken b...