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G20 Antalya Summit, 15-16 November 2015 Introduction 1. We, the Leaders of the G20, met in Antalya on 15-16 November 2015 to determine further collective actions towards achievin...

The Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government of Ghana for the 2016 Financial year was presented to Parliament on Friday, 13th November, 2015 by Hon. Seth E. Terkper, ...

Over the last five years, Africa has seen the highest rate of population growth at about 2.5% annually and by 2050 a quarter of the world’s population will be on the continent. ...

Accelerating infrastructure development across the continent should be a key focus of Africa’s drive toward sustainable development, delegates heard in Abidjan on Friday. More t...

The selection: Monday, 16 November Namibia: Geingob asked to intervene in livestock export battle (New Era) Stakeholders in Namibia’s N$2bn per annum livestock export industry ...

The value of world trade is falling. The 18th Global Trade Alert report shows that the manufactures that account for a large share of the fall are those where G20 nations...

A regional integration agenda has been part of Africa’s strategy for economic transformation for more than three decades, and in some cases for almost a century. African leaders...

Infrastructure Financing Trends in Africa 2014 shows that over $74bn was committed in 2014 to the development of Africa’s infrastructure, and that disbursements by ICA membe...

The BRICS group of emerging nations called on the Group of 20 (G20) top developed and developing nations on Sunday to strengthen their macroeconomic policy cooperation to prevent b...

Further integrating low-income developing countries and SMEs into global value chains will help meet the G20’s target of boosting global growth by an additional 2.1% by 2018, wri...

The Northern Corridor has registered a general decline in transport costs while the Central Corridor shows a steady but marginal increase in the past five years. According to th...

The first-ever Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week opened on Friday, November 13 in Abidjan, with the African Development Bank (AfDB) reiterating its com...

We, the Heads of Competition Authorities of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of S...

During the last two decades, the average growth of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) has been slower than the sub-Saharan African (SSA) average. Given ...

This year’s B20 summit set a new standard for participation and inclusivity across a variety of fields, says Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, Chair, B20, and President, Union of Cha...

Africa is rallying behind India in its push to protect a controversial patent policy on medicine, to ensure that poor countries still have access to cheaper generic drugs manufactu...

Zimbabwe, in an economic quagmire for nearly two decades, has begun to implement economic reforms that, if continued, could help the nation improve the quality of life for the majo...

The selection: Friday, 13 November EU-Africa Valletta Summit: download the Action Plan, Political Declaration    WTO negotiators start to stake out shape of N...

The European Union’s efforts to stem the flow of refugees from Africa was undermined on 12 November by member states who failed to match EU money for a €1.8 billion trust fund ...

Negotiators have tabled a flurry of proposals on the text of the WTO’s ministerial declaration, ahead of the organisation’s ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital city of...