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World Bank Group launches new Global Infrastructure Facility
10 Oct 2014Move paves way for institutional investors to help fill infrastructure gaps in developing world: US$1 trillion a year in extra investment needed through 2020.
The heads of some of...
read moreIntegrated Paper on Recent Economic Developments in SADC
10 Oct 2014Prepared for the Committee of Central Bank Governors in SADCbyCentral Bank of LesothoAugust 2014
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has sequenced a number of activi...
read moreIntergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development: Communiqué
10 Oct 20141. We, the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development, held our ninety-second meeting in Washington, D.C. on October 9, 2014 with Nagl...
read moreMajor conference on biodiversity warns against ‘business as usual’ behaviour, consumption
10 Oct 2014The parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity began meeting on 6 October 2014 as a new United Nations report on the status of biodiversity warned that much more efficient u...
read moreAfrican Development Bank: Partner of choice for the Eastern Africa we want
09 Oct 2014In a newly released report prepared in 2014 by the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) East Africa Regional Resource Center in Nairobi, Kenya, on the occasion of the Bank...
read morePrivate sector and international leaders gather to kick-start investment in sustainable development
09 Oct 2014The heads of dozens of transnational corporations and other private sector stakeholders will meet with Heads of State and government authorities to launch major new initiatives in ...
read moreImproved logistics chain as key to unlocking trade growth
09 Oct 2014The total value of global trade today exceeds US$ 20 trillion, partly as a result of innovations in logistics and changes in policies in countries around the world thus leading to ...
read moreRecent expansion of Africa’s agricultural trade bodes well for food security, resilience
09 Oct 2014Africa’s share of world agricultural trade has increased in recent years after decades of decline, and trade among African countries has been on the rise. Both trends have booste...
read moreKenyan exports to Europe now face tariffs
09 Oct 2014The EAC has been negotiating a free trade agreement with the EU for more than 10 years, but it has so far failed to seal a deal on an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Kenya is...
read morePolicymakers should encourage economic risk taking, keep financial excess under control
09 Oct 2014Policymakers are facing a new global imbalance: not enough economic risk-taking in support of growth, but growing excesses in financial risk-taking, which pose challenges to financ...
read moreKenya negotiates new double taxation deals to pull investors
09 Oct 2014Kenya is negotiating new double taxation agreements (DTA) with several countries as the country moves to expand investment space.
Draft DTAs have already been prepared for negotia...
read moreEuropean businesses plead for urgent improvement in business licensing, taxation
09 Oct 2014
“We are here to listen to you and make swift improvements,” says Ahmed Shide, MoFED
The European Union Business Forum Ethiopia (EUBFE) pleaded for an urgent improvement of t...
read moreAfrica’s Pulse: Decades of sustained growth is transforming Africa’s economies
08 Oct 2014Growth may exceed five percent in 2015-16, but Ebola, terrorism and other risks pose concern
Despite a weaker than expected global economy, with a number of major countries showin...
read moreWhy NTBs are still a big problem to regional trade
08 Oct 2014Traders are losing millions of francs through non-tarriff barriers (NTBs) along the Northern and Central corridors, a new survey has revealed.
According to a survey by the Nationa...
read moreEgypt participates in African trade meetings
08 Oct 2014It will see Egypt talk to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Southern African Development Community (SADC), and East African Community (EAC)
Egypt will pa...
read moreNew facts and figures from FinScope Mauritius 2014
08 Oct 2014FinMark Trust released the results of its first FinScope Consumer Mauritius 2014 survey results on 3 October 2014. The FinScope Survey, developed by FinMark Trust, is a research to...
read moreECOWAS flat tariff regime nears take-off
08 Oct 2014The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will start implementing the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET), a flat rate tariff on all shipments within the West Afric...
read moreUMA wants gov’t bodies to buy Ugandan-made textiles
08 Oct 2014Uganda Manufactures Association wants all government departments and ministries to buy products manufactured in Uganda especially textiles.
The move will increase the produc...
read moreTowards a research roadmap on climate change in Africa
08 Oct 2014A group of African climate research and impact communities began meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, today [6 October 2014] to agree a research collaboration platform on climate science...
read moreAfrica needs innovative finance to bridge its infrastructure gaps
07 Oct 2014Africa nations have already begun to tap into global financial markets. Domestic tax and savings also offer solutions.
Power outages and the lack of roads, railways, and ports hav...
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