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Against the backdrop of a fragile and uneven global recovery, the IMF’s policy steering body – the International Monetary and Financial Committee – met today t...

As the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings wrapped up in Washington, DC on Sunday, finance ministers and bankers from around the world expressed deep concern...

Final statement Sun City, South Africa, 10 October 2014 The 19th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change was held in Sun City, South Africa, on 10 October 2014. H.E. Ms. ...

An end to the seemingly inexhaustible source of cheap, unskilled labour in Asia is within sight as rural wages rise sharply across the region – according to the Overseas Developm...

The level of foreign investors’ participation on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has continued to shrink, dropping to 25.17 per cent as at July, 2014. Foreign Portfolio Invest...

While Sub-Saharan Africa has sustained positive economic growth in the last 20 years, this growth has not translated into a fast-enough reduction in poverty, which remains more wid...

Trade is critical for boosting growth in developing world, particularly in Africa The World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have agreed to enhance their co-opera...

Sustaining growth in sub-Saharan Africa requires proactively addressing structural bottlenecks to growth such as infrastructure gaps and poor business climates, IMF African Departm...

Zambia plans to narrow its budget deficit in 2015, helped by changes to the mining tax regime which should boost revenue, Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda said on Friday. Pres...

President Paul Kagame on Thursday returned from Uganda where he had joined his regional counterparts for the Seventh Summit of the Heads of State of the Northern Corridor...

Ebola, climate change, lack of money for crucial infrastructure – the world’s risks loomed large as the World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings drew to a close. But solutions, too...

With more than 200 Customs bonds worth $100 million executed in the clearance of transit goods on the Northern Corridor in less than three years, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have ta...

East African traders have expressed fears that subsidised Egyptian products will swamp the regional market following a decision by the East African Community to extend the Free T...

The Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma met a delegation of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) to discuss the importance of the aviation sector ...

As concerns mount of South Africa’s dominance with the trade pact. South Africa can breathe a sigh of relief for now, as indications are clear that the African Growth and Opport...

It’s been named among South Africa’s top 10 investment opportunities. The Dube TradePort in Durban is now officially an Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), joining three ot...

The IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings starting this week in Washington will discuss how to break through prolonged low growth and generate more growth and more jobs, IMF Managing Dire...

The Ninth African Development Forum will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 to 16 October 2014 on the theme “Innovative financing for Africa’s transformation”. The Forum ...

An agency of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Namibia Trade Forum (NTF), that aims to chart out the formation of Task Teams, their terms of references, as well as the guidel...

Nigeria’s quest for economic diversification may be imperilled by the continuing suspension of the Export Expansion Grant (EEG), with current backlog of Negotiable Duty Customs C...