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Global flows of foreign direct investment jumped 36 per cent in 2015 to an estimated $1.7 trillion, their highest level since the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009,...

Mali has ratified the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), becoming the 10th African nation to do so. Mali has also accepted an amendment to the TRIPS Agreement aimed at facilit...

Delinking the Namibia dollar from the South African rand is easier said than done and entails numerous considerations, Namene Kalili, senior manager research and development at FNB...

The selection: Wednesday, 20 January 2016 Profiled tweets, by Kenya’s @AMB_A_Mohammed: By hosting TICADVI, Kenya’s credentials as champion of devt in Africa and leader in inte...

Future economic ties between South Africa and China will be based on even more in-depth co-operation, according to Gu Hailiang, deputy chair of the State Committee of Social Scienc...

The recently concluded Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) provides an ideal opportunity to narrow the scope of aid-for-trade (AfT) activities to heed the call for “Managing for D...

Africa needs a new deal on energy, and now it has one. US President Roosevelt’s post-Depression New Deal of the 1930s focused on ‘Relief, Recovery and Reform’. For Afri...

In his speech at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica on 18 January, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said WTO members should build on the historic success of the rece...

The pickup in global growth is weak and uneven across economies, with risks now tilted toward the emerging markets, says the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update. Ad...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D ...

Despite falling unemployment levels in some developed economies, new analysis shows the global job crisis is not likely to end, especially in emerging economies. Continuing high r...

A queen, a crown princess, a president, a prime minister, a Chinese e-commerce pioneer, and a player often ranked as the world’s best footballer are among eminent Advocates appoi...

The Future of Electricity 2016 report from the World Economic Forum analyses best practices in improving the investment attractiveness across developing count...

The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010, a drop of 41 pe...

The selection: Tuesday, 19 January 2016 AfDB launches 'High-Fives' application (AfDB) The High-Fives application is designed to give periodic information about the performance of...

Dynamar recently launched a review of container trades in the region of East and Southern Africa. According to the report, the area has produced a significant growth, despite chall...

Logistics professionals eye growing middle class, but many still wary of entry Consumer spending by a fast-growing middle class is as important a growth driver for Africa as miner...

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), together with all four other United Nations regional commissions, launched the first global repo...

The spread of digital technologies is transforming all types of global flows – those of goods, services, money, and people – and this transformation is only in its earliest s...

Embracing and financing the sustainable development goals could help Africa develop, writes Alberto Leny.  Africa is in the limelight as the world ushers in the post-2015 dev...