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The intra-trade among partner states of the Common Market for the Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) is still weak compared to the business potential the region has, an official ...

The IMF approved a package of proposals to enhance financial support and intensify its policy advice, technical assistance and capacity building in strategic areas to better assist...

Moderate growth continues, with global growth forecast to be slightly down for 2015, reflecting an unexpected setback to economic activity in the first quarter of 2015, mostly in N...

Global Food Price Index falls in June, cereal production is forecast to be strong despite El Niño fears Favorable worldwide conditions for cereal crops will lead to better-than-e...

Common principles for tracking finance for adaptation to climate change The world’s leading development finance institutions have taken an important step forward in tracking mor...

COMESA has finalized the development of a draft livestock policy for the region aimed at stimulating public and private investments in the sector in its Member States. The Draft CO...

The selection: Thursday, 9 July Azevêdo: members must consider best path to success in Nairobi (WTO) “Considering everything I have heard from members over the last three...

An updated draft of the outcome document for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development was released on 7 July 2015 following the consultations of the plenary....

With BRICS Summit just days before the Financing for Development Conference, emerging country leaders have unique opportunity In keeping with their commitment to reform the intern...

The East African Community has drafted a negotiation framework to guide its trade negotiations with third parties, including the US, the European Union and China, which are some of...

The Ethiopian economy has continued a remarkable expansion with the gross domestic product (GDP) growing by an average 10.9% in the past decade, compared to a 5.4% average througho...

On the 8th of July, the co-facilitators of the post-2015 intergovernmental negotiations released the final draft of the outcome document of the post-2015 development agenda which w...

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Wednesday committed itself, through a Ministerial Declaration, to establishing a new set of inclusive sustainability goal...

The selection: Wednesday, 8 July Tax inspectors shrug off borders to track multi-national evasion (Bloomberg) Step aside, Doctors Without Borders. A new class of professiona...

This week the leaders of the BRICS nations and their trade ministers meet for their annual summit in Ufa, Russia. In 2014 as far as commerce was concerned, they focused on promotin...

Restrictive legal and regulatory policies coupled with poor infrastructure and logistic services are holding back East Africa’s manufacturing sector, says the Africa Development ...

Continued poor performance of manufacturing and tourism industries could derail Kenya’s plans of attaining over 6.5 per cent growth this year. The two sectors were the onl...

A ten-year, multibillion-dollar plan to upgrade Uganda’s transportation network and power generation is poised to benefit the East African nation’s citizens and those of n...

Context and Rationale Remarkable economic progress has been made in Africa since the early 2000. Economic estimates for Africa for 2014 and 2015 project an average growth rate of ...

The increasing complexity of global trade, manifest in the rise of global value chains, is driving demand for better trade data. At the “Trade Data Day” on 3 July, WTO Deputy D...