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The fourth Africa CEO Forum – meeting place for entrepreneurs, decision-makers and financiers from the African private sector – takes place on 21-22 March 2016 in the Pala...

The Horn of Africa region is central to the world’s maritime trade. It’s also beginning to fall apart. Back in 2002, Meles Zenawi, then prime minister of Ethiopia, d...

On March 17, 2016, the Fourteenth Replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF-14) began its first meeting, which was held in camera over two days in Abidjan, where...

Experts from national statistical offices of ECOWAS member States agreed to strengthen migration data management for evidence-based policy making on labour migration. The Internat...

The selection: Friday, 18 March 2016 Report of the first session of the Committee on Gender and Social Development (UNECA) Presenting the report on the development of national sa...

The operationalization of the proposed SADC Regional Development Fund is expected to provide alternative financing modalities for southern Africa to support its integration agenda....

WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo held a series of meetings in Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday, 17 March 2016 to discuss recent WTO agreements and the future work of the o...

Global Value Chain Development Report 2016 Background Paper Conference – Beijing, China, 17 March 2016 Good morning, it is a pleasure to be here and participate in this meeting,...

Report prepared for the Ninth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Financ...

The WTO Tenth Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, Kenya was a success with some important agriculture-related decisions, a ministerial declaration, and decisions on select least dev...

The East African Legislative Assembly has proposed enactment of an omnibus law to harmonise national laws appertaining to the Community and to institute an administration law for t...

The mobile money financial services industry is now expanding rapidly in the West African sub-region after its phenomenal growth in East Africa. Experiences of East and Southern Af...

Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development strategies, theoretically, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous...

The selection: Thursday, 17 March 2016 Starting today, in Lilongwe, the 22nd Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts. The theme: ‘Financing the SADC Industrializat...

WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo visited Maseru, Lesotho, on 16 March 2016 to discuss the implementation of recent WTO agreements and how the organization can keep on supporti...

As African countries work towards the goal of achieving economic emergence, Daouda Sembene points out that the key challenge is developing a concrete action plan to shape reform. ...

Natural resources management, particularly in the extractives industry, can make a meaningful contribution to a country’s economic growth when it leads to linkages to the broader...

The best net is the one that catches the most fish, said Kofi Nyamegbe, in a low and steady voice as he stared into the ocean, where lots of fishing boats dotted the horizon. ...

African countries must join others around the world in adopting the National Single Window Environment, an ICT-based concept, to eliminate the bureaucracy posing a challenge to tra...

With around 80 per cent of global trade by volume and over 70 per cent of global trade by value carried by sea, and with these shares being even higher in the case of most developi...