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Policymakers need to deploy broad-based reform plans that incorporate monetary, fiscal, and structural policies to stimulate persistently weak demand, re-launch productivity growth...

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) report on the socioeconomic profile for West Africa is submitted to the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for its recommendations on d...

Mobile money industry continues to grow with more than one billion transactions processed in December 2015 The GSMA has released its fifth annual ‘State of the Industry Report o...

SADC Consultative Meeting on Preparedness and Response to the Impact of El Niño on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security in Southern Africa The SADC Consultative Meeting on Pr...

There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farming households globally, who comprise a large proportion of the world’s poor living on less than $2 a day. In CGAP’s Smallh...

At a time when international oil prices have plummeted, the public finances and current accounts of countries that depend heavily thereon are deteriorating. Such is currently ...

The government has conceded that the existence of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) is costing the country dearly on the economic front. According to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Re...

The selection: Friday, 26 February 2016 Launching today, in Addis: 'Trade in services - case studies from Africa' (AU) The book highlights air transport services in Ethiopia, ban...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo hosted a two day inaugural Great Lakes Private Sector Investment Conference. The Conference was co-organized by the Office of the Special Envoy...

Soaring flows of data and information now generate more economic value than the global goods trade. Conventional wisdom says that globalization has stalled. But although the ...

This “statistical portrait” 2015 edition presents a broad comparison between the situation of the European Union, including EFTA members and Candidate countries, and the Africa...

A growing number of large resource finds are in the developing world, reflecting growing openness in their economies High-income countries have long been the main users and suppli...

Competition laws and policies have long been present in industrialised economies but only started to take root around the 1990s in the non-industrialised and emerging economies. I...

Extracts from the Budget Statement presented by Calle Schlettwein, Minister of Finance, on 25 February 2016 I have the honour to table the FY2016/17 Budget, a second under th...

The world will struggle with population growth, aging, migration, and urbanization Humankind is being buffeted by the forces of demographic change. The most prominent changes are...

The selection: Thursday, 25 February 2016 Namibia's 2016-2017 budget takes place today: PWC preview (The Namibian) Rescheduled: The 17th Ordinary EAC Heads of State Summit will n...

People’s Guide to the Budget The 2016 Budget affirms government’s commitment to close the gap between spending and revenue and implement a plan for stronger economic growth. ...

The 1st Meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Forum (CFTA-NF), kicked off on Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at the African Union Commission (AUC) Headquarters in Addi...

Although the succession of violence and suffering has sometimes prevented countries in the African Great Lakes from achieving their potential, United Nations Secretary-General...

South Africa deposited its instrument of acceptance for the 2005 protocol amending the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on 23 Febr...