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The UN Global Compact and UN Women organize the Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual Event Recognizing gender equality as a fundamental human right, central to driving the glob...

The global fight against wildlife crime received another major boost with the signing of a declaration at Buckingham Palace in London committing the leaders of the global transport...

The selection: Wednesday, 16 March 2016 African Transformation Forum: closing address by President Kagame Africa Pension Funds Network: update (AfDB) Four questions on the state...

Mutual cooperation fundamental to India-Africa partnership India has a key role in Africa’s development process and lays particular emphasis on capacity building in different Af...

Foreign trade statistics play an important role in Namibia’s economy as it measures values and quantities of goods that, by moving into or out of a country, add or subtract from ...

Economic transformation happens through a positive change in the mind-set of the people, said President Paul Kagame when he addressed delegates on the second and final day of the...

Domestic economic developments Domestic output Economic activity in South Africa increased at a slightly slower pace in the fourth quarter of 2015. Following a contraction in the...

The Monitor finds that 25 countries took 41 investment policy measures between October 2015 and February 2016. The share of liberalization and promotion measures was 85 per cent ...

Strengthening institutions and providing enough capacity to professional individuals will be a catalyst to help transform the African economies that have recently been crippled by ...

With the launch of a new trade portal, the Botswana government is lowering trade costs, decreasing time to do business and easing customs cooperation when moving goods and services...

Statement by Hon. Kenneth Matambo, Minister of Finance and Development Planning and SADC Chairperson of Council of Ministers, on the outcome of the meeting of the Co...

Countries that implement stringent environmental policies do not lose export competitiveness when compared against countries with more moderate regulations, according to a new OECD...

The metaphor for Africa’s continued backwardness is the energy crisis that many countries in the region are grappling with, says Economic Commission for Africa sub-regional offic...

The selection: Tuesday, 15 March 2016 The UNCTAD 14 pre-conference negotiating text, submitted by the Chair of the Preparatory Committee, is posted. UNCTAD 14 on the agenda at ci...

In pursuit of socio-economic transformation, African countries have often tried to either follow into the Western or Asian development footprints, often too, oblivious to the ...

South Africa will retain preferential access for its farming goods to the world’s biggest market after meeting benchmarks set by President Barack Obama to allow the import and sa...

Africa’s rise is in danger of faltering. After years during which the continent’s economy grew at an average annual rate of 5%, global uncertainty, depressed commodity prices...

With over 170 million people and a high rate of population growth, Nigeria needs to create 40 to 50 million additional jobs between 2010 and 2030. To reduce poverty and promote mor...

President Jacob Zuma addressed the South Africa-Nigeria Business Forum on 9 March 2016 at the Hilton Transcorp in Abuja, Nigeria. The Business Forum focused on, among others, the f...

From 14-15 March 2016, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), in partnership with the Government of Rwanda, will convene the first African Transforma...