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The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes published new peer review reports on 3 August for 12 countries or jurisdictions, moving furt...

A renewed sense of urgency to get things done characterised last Friday’s inter-state council meeting of ministers from Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and DR Congo as they dis...

The selection: Monday, 3 August Structural transformation is happening, but needs accelerating (UNECA) Sub-regional perspectives on structural change (UNECA/University of No...

Structural transformation has been one of the most talked about concepts among development practitioners in recent years – especially since the work of Margaret McMillan and Dani...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) on 31 July released trade statistics for June 2015 that recorded a trade surplus of R5.80 billion. This figure includes trade data with Bot...

Over 1,200 experts, policy makers and participants on 31 July 2015 adopted the Nairobi Action Agenda on Ecosystem based Adaptation for food security and formed the Ecosystem Based ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised UN Member States for reaching agreement on the draft outcome document that will constitute the new sustainable de...

A platform to connect farmers to grain buyers in the region was launched on 31st July 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. The platform, dubbed G-Soko, was developed by a Kenyan-based IT firm V...

Kenya and South Africa are expected to open fresh talks in Nairobi on Monday in a bid to resolve a visa standoff that has threatened their bilateral relations since last year. T...

The COMESA Council of Ministers during its 34th meeting held in Addis Ababa in March 2015, directed the Secretariat to convene a meeting of the policy think tanks and the private s...

The selection: Friday, 31 July SA's June trade data posted by SARS WTO updates its Statistics Database with revised 2014 data The WTO updated on 30 July 2015 its Statistics...

The United Nations is in the process of defining a post-2015 development agenda. This agenda will be launched at a Summit in New York in September 2015, currently being elaborated ...

Addressing global development issues often requires effective policy reforms. Some of these reforms are justified from a fiscal and macroeconomic perspective, but may have unintend...

Africa50, the new and innovative infrastructure investment platform promoted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) held its Constitutive General Assembly on the 29th of July ...

FAO assists countries in implementing the ports accord on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing A growing number of countries are ratifying an international agreement to com...

Recognizing that wild animals and plants are an “irreplaceable part of the natural systems of the Earth,” the United Nations General Assembly on 30 July urged its Member States...

Preamble The Regional Conference on Building Democratic Developmental States for Economic Transformation in Southern Africa was organised by the United Nations Economic Commis...

Kenya faces a dilemma over continued protection of its manufacturers amid risk of reprisals from other World Trade Organisation (WTO) members aggrieved by its actions. The globa...

The selection: Thursday, 30 July The Tripartite Free Trade Agreement: results of Phase One of the negotiations (tralac) An important question to be answered is whether this ...

Concerns over inclusion feature in 10 of the 17 sustainable development goals that are set to replace the Millennium Development Goals, which expire this year. Such a focus on incl...