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The World Bank Group committed a record-breaking *$15.3 billion to Sub Saharan Africa’s development in fiscal year 2014 (July 2013 to June 2014) supporting shared prosperity in t...

Fourteen WTO members launched plurilateral negotia-tions for an Environmental Goods Agreement on 8 July 2014 at the WTO. These members said the talks will promote green growth and ...

​UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report 2014, launched on 3 July, shows that there are structural problems in the pattern of growth in Africa and that these require a m...

The move will also allow Tanzanians to invest in the EAC region without requiring prior permission from the BoT Tanzanians who wish to move their capital and invest in any o...

Negotiations between Namibia and South Africa on the livestock export crisis suffered a major setback when the South African Feedlot Association halted the process by demanding mor...

African Union countries last week approved a proposal to create an African Monetary Fund in line with plans for greater economic integration on the continent. Broadly, the A...

The fifth review of the trade policies and practices of China took place on 1 and 3 July 2014. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Gover...

The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has said that its new system known as Tanzania Customs Integrated System (Tancis) aimed at bringing greater transparency in customs clearance h...

The Single Customs Territory, whose major objective is to overcome the hurdle of slow and costly movement of goods and services and also improve the business environment in the r...

Angola is well positioned to receive funding from the future BRICS bank due to its close ties with Brazil and China, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The recent...

African countries are coming under strong pressure from the United States and the European Union to reverse the decision adopted by their trade ministers to implement the World Tra...

The private sector in Tanzania is increasingly impacting policy, especially at the national and sectoral levels – a momentum that needs to be driven up. That is the view of...

Senior Government officials from SADC member states have concluded a three-day regional technical Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA) Conference at the Bingu Internation...

Income levels in most developing and emerging countries will not catch up with advanced economies for many decades without efforts to boost productivity, according to a new report ...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told the African Union Forum on Industrialization and Inclusive Development in Africa on 1 July 2014 that the Trade Facilitation Agreement “will...

The East African Community (EAC) partner states established the EAC Common Market on July 1, 2010 which was a significant step in the EAC integration process. In establishing the ...

Four years into the establishment of the East African Common Market Protocol, its implementation is expected to be close to the final stages, according to experts. However, the pr...

President Goodluck Jonathan hinted yesterday that the federal government was shoring up investments in the service industry to generate more job opportunities for Nigerians. Jonat...

Swaziland, located in southern part of Africa, has been excluded from the list of countries eligible to get benefit under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) of the US Go...

The possible imposition of anti-dumping tariffs on certain chicken cuts is unnecessary, the Association of Meat Importers and Exporters (Amie) said on Monday. Local producers had ...