Tag: Competitiveness

Low commodity prices continue to impede growth Amid falling commodity prices and continuing weakness in global growth, Sub-Saharan Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth d...

The simplest way to think about international trade is the transfer of goods – cars, clothing, bananas. Countries that export more goods are generally better off, because they’...

Countries that implement stringent environmental policies do not lose export competitiveness when compared against countries with more moderate regulations, according to a new OECD...

Transport and logistics infrastructure is a critical determinant of the competitiveness of a country’s producers and exporters. Well-functioning transport and logistics infrastru...

Illicit trade is a global menace that seriously affects both the public and private sectors within the COMESA region and all other parts of the world. It undermines the concept of ...

Boosting agriculture, services and value chains is key to Africa’s competitiveness In Africa, economic growth has risen steadily for the past 15 years and rapid population growt...

Innovation and competitiveness experts have gathered in Addis Ababa from 21-22 April to review draft chapters of the 7th edition of the joint report on Assessing Regional...

Obama Administration to Expand Trade Africa Initiative U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and trade ministers from the East African Community (EAC) marked a milestone for Tr...

Mauritius was among the first developing countries to submit its list of binding trade facilitation commitments to the World Trade Organization in July 2014, following assistance f...

Just as development experts predict a mixed year for Nigeria and other countries within the sub-Saharan African region, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) ha...

East African businesses are set to trade more with India by learning how to take advantage of the country’s duty-free market access scheme, facilitated by the...

South Africa is a country rich in diversity with an array of cultures and communities, each with their own stories and history. Each of these communities have produced sometimes wo...

Although the South African economy had mixed fortunes in the past decades, in the period between 1975-2012, it experienced the biggest declines in the overall performance, however,...

Diversifying the Nigerian economy away from oil would require paying more attention to making agriculture and value-adding manufacturing export more competitive. Good market penet...

A measure of success for any economic or social indicator lies in its ability to provoke discourse and drive positive and progressive change. We have seen the rise to prominenc...

  “Some objectives of our trade agenda include: to achieve non-oil exports to ECOWAS from the present nine per cent to 20 per cent by 2015, with the ultimate goal of increa...

The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report will be out on September 3. This much-cited report ranks countries according to their competitiveness. The World Economi...

More than ever, cities are the lifeblood of the global economy, and increasingly determining the wealth of nations. Productive policy innovation is taking place in cities, more of...

Trade facilitation has a long history in UNCTAD, whose mandate in this area dates from the Final Act of its First Ministerial Conference in 1964. The Final Act of the Conference r...

What GAO Found U.S. imports from African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) countries have increased since 2001, but AGOA countries’ share of overall U.S. imports remained small ...