Tag: Investment policy

Ashly Hope, tralac Research Advisor, and Talkmore Chidede, tralac Intern, provide an analysis of South Africa’s foreign investment regime according to the G20 Guiding Principles ...

The fourth Trade Policy Review of Zambia was held on 21 and 23 June 2016. The review shed light on areas requiring the Government’s attention, and possibly further reforms to hel...

In late 2015, African countries finalised the drafting of the Pan-African Investment Code (PAIC). What is the added value of this continental instrument related to the regulation o...

Chinese companies are set to scale up their investments on the African continent and play a bigger part in helping Africa achieve higher and more sustained economic growth. This w...

Global flows of foreign direct investment jumped 36 per cent in 2015 to an estimated $1.7 trillion, their highest level since the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009,...

The objective of this working paper is to provide some background to the South African trade and investment profile in recent years, with a special emphasis on the trade relations ...

Regional Cooperation Committee meeting to discuss improvements to Africa’s productive integration and Continental Free Trade Area Despite growth during the past decade and relat...

International agreements on the promotion and protection of foreign investment do not guarantee investments; nor the right kind. They do, however, play an important role as part of...

The Commission is proposing a new trade and investment strategy for the European Union, entitled ‘Trade for All: Towards a more responsible trade and investment policy’. The n...

Speakers at the UNCTAD 62nd Trade and Development Board said that international investment agreements must preserve States’ abilities to adopt policies that support the SDGs. A b...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) partnered with the OECD in 2013 to create an Investment Policy Framework (IPF) specific to the SADC region. This framework is...

This paper provides an update on South Africa’s foreign investment position through to and including the December 2012 year with respect to the old, new and good friends of the E...

Ministers met with UNCTAD Secretary General Kituyi at the official UNCTAD side event to the Financing for Development (FfD) conference. There Dr. Kituyi launched the newly updated ...

The Investing in Africa Forum: Partnering to Accelerate Investment, Industrializa-tion, and Results was held June 30-July 1, 2015, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, co-organized by the Gov...

One positive outcome of last year’s U.S.-African Leaders Summit was the creation of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (DBIA), whose purpose is to mak...

In 2012, the 15 member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) identified the OECD’s Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) as a reference for develo...

Regional and especially economic integration holds potential and strong benefits for Africa. But this is true only if Africa could succeed in identifying a successful formula to co...

Investing in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): An Action Plan This edition of the World Investment Report provides valuable analysis that can inform global discussions on ...

tralac presented a short course (18-29 August 2014), at the request of Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on ‘Drafting and Nego...

The fifth edition of the Status of Integration in Africa report (SIA V) contains information on the implementation process of the integration agenda by the Regional Economic Commun...