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In Mainland Tanzania, poverty has declined by approximately one percentage point each year between 2007 and 2012, according to a new World Bank report released today. Based on the...

Remarks by Mr. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD at the Ministerial Roundtable on Managing the transition from the Millennium Development Goals to the sustainabl...

The Least developed countries (LDC) group at the WTO presented on 30 April a paper aimed at stimulating a discussion among WTO members with regard to the implementation of the Bali...

“Growth derived from natural resources has not delivered goods in terms of addressing poverty because is it linked to exploitation,” said Mr. Abdalla Hamdok, the Deputy Executi...

The world still lives in the shadow of the global financial crisis that began in the United States in 2008. The U.S. experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial system...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo at a General Council meeting on 5 May launched the logo for the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference, noting that the logo was being launched simultane...

If you live and shop in Rwanda, six out of every ten imported products that you buy from malls are likely to have arrived in Kigali through the Central Corridor, a trade passage li...

Kenya has for the first time bought more goods from the United States in one year than it did from the whole of Africa, underlining growing commercial ties that are expected to dee...

In a rapidly changing world, bolstered cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations was needed to respond effectively to emerging threats to in...

Liberia emerged from 14 years of civil war in 2003 as one of the poorest countries in the world with unemployment estimated to be 86 percent. Although the country has made pro...

Dedicated Session of Experts and Senior Officials followed by Ministers of Trade, 08-15 May 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Introduction Following the recommendation of the 9th ...

UNCTAD’s latest policy brief identifies the rising productivity of capital in Africa as an important characteristic of recent growth and offers policy recommendations on how to s...

Executive Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) have endorsed the Bank’s Botswana Country Strategy Paper (CSP) 2015-2019; which provides a framework for the Bank...

Illicit trafficking in smuggled goods like medicines and tobacco continued to plague cross-border trade between South Africa and Swaziland, Thomas Moyane, Commissioner of the South...

East African governments have increased their annual budgets for the 2015/2016 fiscal year, with more spending directed to security and key sectors expected to drive growth. But t...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for March 2015 that recorded a trade surplus of R0.48 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswana,...

Kenya’s devolution, adopted following the March 2013 general elections, is expansive in scope and implementation timelines. A significant portion of public finances and responsib...

The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors on 29 April 2015 approved a US$69 million credit to help improve Malawi’s road and border post  infrastructure connecti...

East Africa’s competitiveness as an investment destination is at risk from the rising incidence of unfair trade practices among firms operating across the region. The dela...

Another Look at Pan-Africa Cooperation Beyond the Lens of Xenophobia Following the break-out of Xenophobic attacks targeted at African nationals, living and working in South Afric...