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As the global community commits to the new Sustainable Development Goals and gears up for a new international climate policy agreement, the UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2015...

International transport costs amounted to a country average of 9 per cent of the value of imports during the decade 2005-2014, according to the UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport ...

Kenya’s economic performance remains solid, with the growth rate expected to improve from 5.3% in 2014 to 5.4% in 2015, according to a new World Bank Group economic report releas...

The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Africa Hub launched on Tuesday, October 13 in Abidjan its Annual Report for 2014-2015, which outlines the progress made to date in helping t...

The involvement of Kenyan banks in the SME segment has grown remarkably over the last few years and most banks intend to continue expanding their SME portfolio in the near future. ...

The Commission is proposing a new trade and investment strategy for the European Union, entitled ‘Trade for All: Towards a more responsible trade and investment policy’. The n...

The selection: Wednesday, 14 October Starting today, in Maputo: 2nd Nordic-Mozambican Conference on Inclusive Growth Now available: 'Shaping economic transformation in Tanzania'...

The new Sustainable Development Goals will only succeed if they can succeed in Africa. How can we make that happen? A new report from the Africa Progress Panel, Global Goals, Afric...

The theme of the Fifth Global Review of Aid for Trade, held from 30 June to 2 July 2015, was “Reducing Trade Costs for Inclusive, Sustainable Growth”. Discussions focused on t...

Following the successful launch of Africa Week 2015, Member States gathered in the afternoon to hear from African Regional Economic Communities about their efforts to silence the g...

Programmes proliferate but vast majority of rural poor remain uncovered by social protection Social protection is emerging as a critical tool in the drive to eradicate hunger, yet...

Fears that a slowing China will cause world trade to stagnate could be overstated, given European nations’ long-standing trade links with emerging markets (EMs) across Latin Amer...

COMESA, EAC and ECOWAS sub-regions should work out ways of integrating their respective Free Trade Areas to fast track the realization of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) in ...

Africa Week 2015 was launched at a high-level event which featured the participation of His Excellency Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the 70th session of the General Assembly (...

Tunisia grabbed the world’s attention when it sparked the first revolution at the start of the Arab Spring in 2011. It has since made important transitions, adopting a new c...

The selection: Tuesday, 13 October Later today in Geneva: launch of the Review of Maritime Transport 2015 (UNCTAD) Today in Luanda: Angola/Botswana Business Forum (Angola Press)...

The Foundation of Africa Union Agenda 2063 Fifty years after the first thirty-three (33) independent African states gathered in Addis Ababa to form the Organization of African Uni...

Ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries concluded a sweeping trade pact this past Monday, following several days of frenzied negotiations in the US city of Atlanta to bring the agr...

Africa Week 2015 kicked off at Headquarters on Monday with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commending African Member States of the United Nations for taking an “important step” t...

Understanding the opportunities and challenges and making the African Maritime a reality is a must, if Africa aspires to a better and secured future in the context of Agenda 2063. ...