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Both emerging market and advanced economies need a partnership for growth to promote faster and more sustainable convergence of income levels, said IMF chief Christine Lagarde in a...

The Regional Assembly is urging Partner States to “up their game” in sensitisation activities, particularly when it comes to the Common Market Protocol in order to raise awaren...

EALA on 3 February 2016 debated and approved the EAC Annual Report 2013/14. The Assembly, meanwhile, urged the Council of Ministers to ensure further improvements in future subsequ...

The global Food Price Index, calculated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on a monthly basis, fell in January, slipping 1.9 percent below its level in t...

The African Integration and Development Review is an international multidisciplinary journal for the discussion of a wide range of integration issues in Africa. This volume of the...

The selection: Thursday, 4 February 2016 Now available: African Integration and Development Review (Vol. 8 No. 2, July 2015) Africa-Arab Partnership: update from Addis (AU) Ea...

On January 29, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with the Kingdom of Lesotho, and considered and endorsed the...

Statement by Mr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD at the Ministerial Dinner on Trade, organized by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, 2 February 2016 The rule...

The recent decline in commodity prices, especially for oil, has revived once again interest in their economic impact. Most commodities prices have declined by about 50 percent betw...

The current lack of food security within the sub-Saharan Africa region is a matter of international concern. Simplistic attempts to respond to this challenge by conglomerating the ...

Sustainable development is the Holy Grail of the international community, and the potential roles played by trade and finance lie at the heart of the search effort. The extremely r...

There have been calls recently from some commentators to re-consider the one-to-one peg of the Namibia dollar to the South African rand, because of the rand’s strong depreciation...

The selection: Wednesday, 3 February 2016 Some conference dates to diarise: 2016 Mining Indaba (Cape Town, 7-11 February) EAC’s Council of Ministers (Arusha, 22 February)...

The World Bank presents the first edition of the Zimbabwe Economic Update (ZEU). The objective of the ZEU is, first, to provide a World Bank perspective on Zimbabwe’s recent...

For a while Africans enthusiasm with the good economic performance of the continent has had a contagious lazy effect in many minds. It was as if the road to a new continental statu...

The Economic Commission for Africa joins hundreds of think tanks and civil society actors around the world in a series of annual coordinated events as part of a program organized b...

The Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC) held a press briefing on 27 January 2016 on the margins of the 26th African Union Summit of Heads of S...

The IMF has approved an important reform to the institution’s policy on lending to countries that request large-scale financing. The broad objectives of the reform – which inc...

Preliminary draft for peer review, based on UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development Mobilizing investment and maximizing its positive contribution to ...

UNCTAD has updated its recently launched Investment Dispute Settlement Navigator. The ISDS Navigator is now up to date as of 1 January 2016. The update reveals that the numbe...