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African Ministers call for increased employment impact of infrastructure investments
04 Mar 2014Ministers gathered at the 15th Regional Seminar of Labour-based Practitioners in Yaoundé called for increased participation of local enterprises and people in infrastructure devel...
read moreNext IPAP version drafted, says Minister Davies
04 Mar 2014Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies says a draft of the next iteration of the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) has been prepared.
Minister Davies was addressing a post S...
read moreAfrica group COMESA ‘encouraged’ with regional trade cooperation
28 Feb 2014A senior official at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) says the organization is encouraged by an agreement between heads of state from Uganda, the Democrat...
read moreSACU revenue dependence raises concerns
28 Feb 2014A financial analyst has expressed concern about about Namibia’s reliance on revenue from the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), saying the government needs to diversify its so...
read moreJapan, U.S. should cooperate to stop TPP talks from drifting
28 Feb 2014Ministerial talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral economic partnership agreement once again failed to reach a basic agreement, mainly due to a confrontation between ...
read moreBRICS to set up their bank within five years, progress slow – Russia
27 Feb 2014The BRICS bloc of emerging economies will set up its development bank with a total capital of $100 billion within five years, but member countries still haven’t agreed on their s...
read moreWorld Bank to help map Africa’s mineral resources
27 Feb 2014There may be a trillion dollars worth of minerals buried underneath the African continent – but information on those resources remains in many cases unknown, unmapped or otherwis...
read moreTanzania: Talks on Agoa extension going on well – Kigoda
27 Feb 2014The government has said that talks on its request to have the US government extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) are progressing well.
Speaking in an exclusive int...
read moreBoosting trade with Africa
27 Feb 2014New measures aim to encourage trade and promote SA as an African investment hub
We all know the stories of Shoprite, MTN and Game’s growing presence on the African continent. Bu...
read moreMinisters of Finance and Trade endorse compromises for concluding EPA negotiations
26 Feb 2014West Africa’s ministers of finance and trade have adopted the compromise proposals for concluding the decade long negotiations of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with th...
read moreSA farmers cough up to keep black spot out of EU
26 Feb 2014Complying with the requirements to export citrus fruit to the lucrative EU market had cost the local industry as much as R1 billion in the past year, Justin Chadwick, the chief exe...
read moreAmbitious structural reforms can pave the return to strong and sustainable growth, OECD says
26 Feb 2014Adopting ambitious and comprehensive structural reform agendas will offer governments the best chance for a return to strong, sustainable and balanced economic growth that creates ...
read moreDti promotes SA at investment initiative in India
25 Feb 2014Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Elizabeth Thabethe will today lead a 40-member business delegation to India for the fifth annual Investment and Trade Initiative (ITI).
The ITI ...
read moreUSA to Swaziland: ‘Fully’ comply or lose AGOA
25 Feb 2014The message from the Americans is loud and clear: Swaziland has to ‘fully’ comply with five conditions or lose their eligibility to participate in the Africa Growth Opportunity...
read moreHarnessing Africa’s emerging partnership
25 Feb 2014For most of the post-independence period, Africa’s commercial and development partnerships have been largely dominated by Western Europe, the United States and Canada. For many A...
read moreMembership to several blocs hurts trade in EAC – expert
24 Feb 2014Overlapping membership in several trade areas is impeding “free circulation of goods” within the East African Community-members states, a regional integration and trade expert ...
read moreDEAD AID: Why TRADE facilitation is necessary but not AID
24 Feb 2014Indeed to release the potential of Africa, there is the need to develop means to facilitate trade across the borders and this means major investments in transport infrastructure in...
read moreG20 finance ministers agree global growth target of two percentage points
24 Feb 2014Ministers fail to outline a clear plan to achieve the target – which amounts to about $2tn – or consequences for missing it
The G20 nations will aim to increase global growth ...
read moreRob Davies on the Special Economic Zones Bill 2013
21 Feb 2014Address by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), on the Special Economic Zones Bill 2013
18 February 2014
The Special Eco...
read moreKenya to lose export edge if new EPA delays, says EU
21 Feb 2014Kenya could lose more than other East African Community member states if the trade bloc does not sign a new Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
The EU delegati...
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