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The African Ministerial Conference 2015: Intellectual Property for an Emerging Africa co-organized by the Government of Senegal and WIPO in cooperation with the African Union ...

Botswana’s leading role in ratifying the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) will reduce costs associated with trading of its goods and services...

Ahead of the 3rd Africa Global Business Forum (AGBF) which will take place on 17 and 18 November in Dubai, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has developed a res...

Mauritius is well placed to implement an open data initiative and demonstrates strong top-level commitments to transparency and to innovation, reveals an Open Data Readiness Assess...

Global FDI flows picked up in the first half of 2015, increasing by 13% compared to the second half of 2014. If we exclude the drop in the first half of 2014, global flows hav...

East African countries are inching closer to the establishment of a harmonised commodities exchange that will ensure food security and stabilise prices of non-perishable agricult...

Delegates from Central Banks in COMESA member States have recommended to their institutions to enshrine price stability in law as one of their primary objectives. This was one of ...

The selection: Friday, 30 October Just released: South Africa’s September 2015 trade statistics The India-Africa Forum Summit: outcome documents, commentaries Delhi Declaratio...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) on 30 October released trade statistics for September 2015 that recorded a trade deficit of R0.89 billion. This figure includes trade data ...

Partners in Progress: Towards a Dynamic and Transformative Development Agenda 1. We, the Heads of State and Government and Heads of Delegation representing the continent of Africa...

The WTO released online on 29 October 2015 new editions of its key statistical publications: International Trade Statistics, Trade Profiles, World Tariff Profiles and Services Prof...

India and African nations on Thursday pledged to continue promoting investment and trade through opening of new markets and raising the level of economic partnership between the tw...

Maritime experts have said ports in African countries are designed mostly for imports rather than export, noting that not less than 90 per cent of the income accruing into the Afri...

Three separate developing country groups have tabled negotiating proposals on agriculture at the WTO, only weeks ahead of the global trade body’s tenth ministerial conference in ...

“For Africa, climate change has massive consequences, the continent contributes the least to greenhouse gases but tends to be the most vulnerable to its consequences. This climat...

Keynote Address delivered by Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), at the 14th OECD Global Forum on Competition in Paris, 29-30 October 2...

As part of the World Bank Group’s Global Practice on Trade and Competitiveness, infoDev supports entrepreneurs in high-growth sectors with the power to have profound impact:...

The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU) Regions met under the 2015 SADC-EU Ministerial Political Dialogue Meeting on 27 October 2015 in Luxembo...

The selection: Thursday, 29 October Today, in Cape Town: tralac's BLNS Trade Governance and Remedies workshop Featured tweet, @jpstijns: Africa allocates 94.7% of its foreign inv...

​Senior trade policymakers from developing countries hailed UNCTAD’s support on trade policy frameworks in making progress towards Sustainable Development Goals at a meeting he...