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Power Africa launches roadmap to 60 million connections and 30,000 MW by 2030
01 Feb 2016On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at the Powering Africa Summit, Power Africa partners launched a roadmap to meet President Obama’s goals of adding 30,000 megawatts and 60 million con...
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29 Jan 2016The selection: Friday, 29 January 2016
Later today, from Pretoria: South Africa's December trade data figures will be released
Call for papers: COMESA-ACBF capacity building proj...
read moreMining and oil deals drop by half in East Africa
29 Jan 2016Deal making in East Africa’s natural resources sector slumped in 2015 due to the falling price of commodities in the international market.
The annual financial review by Burbidg...
read moreAgribusiness rules lag in agriculture dependent countries
29 Jan 2016Countries where agriculture is a major economic activity have greater room for improving key regulations that govern the agribusiness sector, a new World Bank report finds.
In con...
read moreRegional blocs urged to harmonise rules of origin
29 Jan 2016Experts have called on Africa’s three trade blocs of COMESA, EAC and SADC to expedite the harmonisation of rules of origin to boost industrialisation and intra-regional trade on ...
read moreBeyond AGOA Hearing: Remarks by Ambassador Michael Froman
29 Jan 2016On behalf of USTR, I would like to welcome our distinguished guests and friends participating in today’s hearing on policy recommendations for deepening the U.S.-Africa trade and...
read moreIndia-Africa Partnership: A Civil Society Perspective
29 Jan 2016India and Africa share close political and cultural linkages forged by a long history of trade relations and colonialism. In recent years, India and Africa have cooperated closely ...
read moreWTO releases new statistical profiles on global value chains
29 Jan 2016The WTO has released new statistical profiles on global value chains (GVCs) for 61 economies. These profiles, available on the WTO website, bring together a set of indicators ...
read moreHow the internationalisation of China’s currency could offset the global trade slowdown
29 Jan 2016The start of 2016 has seen a tumultuous start for the global financial system. Oil prices have descended below $30 a barrel and economic developments in China have brought episodes...
read moreA boost to transparency in international tax matters: 31 countries sign tax co-operation agreement to enable automatic sharing of country by country information
29 Jan 2016As part of continuing efforts to boost transparency by multinational enterprises (MNEs), 31 countries* signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) for the automati...
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28 Jan 2016The selection: Thursday, 28 January 2016
Featured infographic, @Enugu62: 29 million already hungry, worse to come. Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers.
New, from tralac: J...
read moreGlobal investors must play full role in shifting world to clean energy, says UN chief
28 Jan 2016More than 500 global investors gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York today to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to move the world onto the path of clean energy...
read moreMeeting of Union of African Shippers underway
28 Jan 2016The 10th General Assembly of the Union of African Shippers’ Council (UASC) has begun in Accra on Wednesday with a call on member countries to lead the role in articulating the be...
read moreRwanda, EAC business leaders set to deepen commercial ties with US
28 Jan 2016Considerable economic success in Rwanda and the larger bloc of the East African Community (EAC) is attractive for American investors and the US government is focused on supporting ...
read moreSmall Middle-Income Countries – Raising the bar
28 Jan 2016Small Middle-Income Countries Conference – Gaborone, Botswana, 29 January 2016
In recent years, small middle-income countries (SMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa have enjoyed stronger...
read more17 Member states of OHADA meet in Cotonou to discuss the Entreprenant Status
28 Jan 2016Promoting the entreprenant status to support the formalization of micro and small enterprises in the OHADA region
The Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa ...
read moreMomentum is building on the urgent need to halt and reverse extreme economic inequality
28 Jan 2016In early October, President Jim Kim of the World Bank rejected “trickle-down” economics and called out the injustice of economic growth being captured by the few. Lat...
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27 Jan 2016The selection: Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Today, in Addis: press briefings by Dr Anthony Mothae Maruping (Commissioner for Economic Affairs) and Mrs Fatima Haram Acyl (Commissione...
read moreParticipation of small economies in global value chains: Evidence and policy issues
27 Jan 2016Small economies face both challenges and opportunities when trying to integrate into global value chains (GVCs). By specialising in specific tasks or stages within a value chain, s...
read moreCompanies blind to climate risks in half their supply chains
27 Jan 2016Following the historic international deal agreed at the UN climate conference, COP21, and the news from Davos that climate change is the world’s most impactful risk[1], major com...
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