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Managing the impact of sharply lower oil prices is sub-Saharan Africa’s short-term policy priority, IMF African Department Director Antoinette Sayeh said. She told a news confer...

Kicking off a high-level meeting with global financial institutions and development agencies at United Nations Headquarters on Monday morning, Secretary-General Ban Ki-mo...

Financing will be key for the creation and unveiling of an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared on 18 April 2015,...

The 2015 World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings are over, but a pivotal year in development has only just begun. By September, the world probably w...

Government representatives, business leaders and other members of the public and private-sector came together on April 16th for an event focused on the hurdles and benefits of...

Ministers in charge of Industry and Quality in West Africa are to meet in Accra, Ghana, 24-25 April 2015 to consider and validate several documents including the strategy for ...

President Jacob Zuma says government has received a political commitment from the United States government that the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) would be signed with t...

Jaki Kweka is that rare breed of gourmet chocolatier. She makes fine chocolate in Africa using local African ingredients. Other African companies such as Ghana’s Golden Tree use...

Towards a continental integration agenda H.E. Commissioner Acyl extends her greetings and apologies for not being able to join this important conference. Allow me to take this aus...

Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies has assured an audience in Washington that a settlement on the contentious ‘chicken issue’ is on the horizon. “Our industries ...

The 4th Meeting of the Continental Task Force (CTF), commenced on 10 April 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. The meeting was organized by the Department of Trade and Industry of the Africa U...

Post-2015 Financing for Development: Multilateral Development Finance Statement by the Heads of the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Rec...

While the last 15 years have seen relatively high levels of growth driven by a commodity super-cycle and strong internal demand from a growing middleclass, Africa is still dependen...

Private and Public Sectors Join in Quest for Market and Finance Opportunities at 7th Africa Carbon Forum Ministers from governments across Africa have renewed their call for a str...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 15 April 2015 called on business leaders to expand investment in low-carbon growth and opportunities to advance sustainabl...

Insurance companies are struggling to gain a foothold in Africa, where populations tend to favour community insurance schemes called tontines. These are often informal agreeme...

The aim of this report is to present an up-to-date overview of the commodity dependence in developing countries in a friendly and easy-to-understand manner. In fact, commodities r...

Joint Civil Society Public Statement Today [14 April 2015] the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) wasted a ground-breaking opportunity to tackle the d...

In the global context of a moderate and uneven economic recovery, sound management of public finances can secure elusive growth and jobs. In its latest Fiscal Monitor, the IM...

Effects of Ebola on household welfare likely to reach well beyond the end of health crisis The return to work continues in Liberia, led by gains for wage workers and the rural sel...