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China-Africa trade exceeds $200 billion
21 Feb 2014China-Africa trade totaled more than $200 billion last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday, highlighting the Asian powerhouse’s burgeoning trade and investment ties ...
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20 Feb 2014Remarks by Dr Rob Davies at the Centre for Conflict Studies Public Dialogue
Cape Town, 17 February 2014
At the outset, let me thank the Centre for Conflict Studies and its Direct...
read moreFive questions answered on Africa’s rising economic growth
19 Feb 2014There has been a lot of talk about Africa’s rising economic prosperity and whether it is sustainable and deeply rooted in reducing extreme poverty across the continent. So, I sat...
read moreTechnical officials discuss EAC-USA Trade and Investment Partnership in Bujumbura
19 Feb 2014Technical Officials from the East African Community (EAC) and the United States (U.S.) met 12 to 15 February 2014 in Bujumbura, Burundi to discuss Trade Africa and the EAC – U.S....
read moreAzevêdo’s health-check on global trade: Growth recovering but restrictions on the rise
19 Feb 2014Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in presenting his first global trade-monitoring report to WTO members on 17 February 2014, said that trade growth projections for this year are ...
read moreChina and Africa must redefine new terms of engagement
18 Feb 2014In Africa, exports are booming and export markets have become more diversified.
Foreign direct investments have increased by a factor of six over the past decade. Private entrepre...
read moreIndia to develop people-centred technology with BRICS partners
18 Feb 2014India will collaborate with the four other BRICS countries in science and technology to generate new knowledge and develop innovative products, services and processes, critical to ...
read more11th Regional Meeting of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly concludes in Mauritius
18 Feb 2014The 11th Regional Meeting of the African Caribbean Pacific-European Union (ACP-EU) Joint Parliamentary Assembly has ended with delegates rallying for the harmonization and rat...
read moreSMEs: Key players in regional integration
17 Feb 2014The push towards regional integration in eastern and southern Africa depends on a number of factors. One important factor is ensuring that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are f...
read moreResource nationalisation ‘risks breaking global trade rules’
17 Feb 2014Governments of resource-rich countries have to take care in pursuing higher taxes and rents on mining companies as they risk flouting international trade rules, the Mining Indaba i...
read moreAGOA: Free-trade deal on the line
17 Feb 2014US poultry producers are lobbying their government to withdraw South Africa’s duty-free access in retaliation for anti-dumping duties, which they say are unfair.
South Africa en...
read morePrivate sector urged to buy local
14 Feb 2014Trade and Industry Minister, Dr Rob Davies, says the private sector should join government’s move towards buying locally produced goods to stimulate domestic economic growth.
Sp...
read moreUN labour agency calls for major investment in rural Africa as key to prosperity
14 Feb 2014Rural development is key to Africa’s prosperity, yet it has been undervalued by Governments, international lenders and policy advisers, the UN International Labour Organization (...
read moreNew report provides blueprint to close infrastructure financing gap
14 Feb 2014The importance of infrastructure as a key driver of growth, competitiveness and social well-being is well established. Yet, as highlighted in the World Economic Forum’s new repor...
read moreTrade policies and regional integration in Africa
13 Feb 2014To address the challenges impeding the flow of goods and services within the continent, policy makers must employ strategies that would strengthen Africa’s infrastructure develop...
read moreNamibia expects to miss deadline for renewing Europe trade deal
13 Feb 2014Namibia said it won’t be able to renew a trade deal with the European Union by the time an existing agreement expires in October because the 28-nation bloc is inflexible over foo...
read moreGetting the export balance right
13 Feb 2014South Africa and Sweden have long-standing political and development connections, and linking up to find ways to monitor South Africa’s export competitiveness is the latest ventu...
read moreAzevêdo highlights role of academics in policymaking of developing countries
12 Feb 2014Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in launching the WTO book “Connecting to Global Markets” on 11 February 2014, said: “By demonstrating the contribution that the academic co...
read moreNew Zealand gov’t blocks scrutiny of controversial TPP trade deal
12 Feb 2014The New Zealand government has blocked attempts to have the full text of the controversial 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement released to Parliament before it is s...
read moreEAC single customs launch postponed to June
12 Feb 2014Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda have postponed the single customs territory (SCT) roll-out, giving Burundi and Tanzania more time to prepare for the shift.
East Africa Community (EAC) se...
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