Tag: Trade Data
EPA meeting flops as member states fail to provide trade data
02 Feb 17 News
The East African Community meeting that was to be held this weekend to discuss the Economic Partnership Agreement between the region and the European Union was postponed after se...
United States’ trade with Africa – 2016
01 Feb 17 InfographicsAfrica offers substantial trade and investment opportunities across national and regional markets, and provides significant opportunities for US companies.
SADC, COMESA and ECOWAS...
South Africa Merchandise Trade Statistics for December 2016
31 Jan 17 NewsSouth Africa trade surplus beats expectations in December
South Africa posted a trade surplus of ZAR 12.04 billion in December of 2016 compared to an upwardly revised ZAR 1.68 bil...
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19 Jan 17 NewsProfiled, forthcoming events: Regional trade in Africa: drivers, trends and opportunities (3 February, ACP Secretariat, Brussels); 2017 African Economic Platform (20-22 March, Maur...
South Africa-North America trading relationship
19 Jan 17 ResourceThis Trade Brief documents the trading relationship between South Africa (SA) and the three members of the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), for the period 2006 to 2015. The ...
UN World Data Forum wraps up with launch of Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data
19 Jan 17 NewsThe inaugural United Nations (UN) World Data Forum concluded on Wednesday with the launch of a global plan for better data to improve people’s lives, and new ideas and solutions ...
Data, ICT developments and the Continental Free Trade Area
18 Jan 17 DiscussionTarik Oguz, tralac Research Advisor – Information and Communication Technologies, comments on the inaugural UN World Data Forum held in Cape Town and the ongoing CFTA negotiation...
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18 Jan 17 NewsEurope readies its ‘Marshall Plan’ for Africa (Politico)
If Europe wants to tackle the root causes of the migration crisis, the head of the European Investment Bank says it mu...
At Cape Town Forum, UN Women and partners seek ways to close gender data gaps
18 Jan 17 NewsWith only 41 per cent of countries regularly producing data on violence against women and only 13 per cent of countries having a dedicated gender statistics budget, the first-ever ...
UN Data Forum explores ways to improve and modernize national statistical systems
17 Jan 17 NewsWith the statistical community facing myriad challenges as countries begin to implement the new 15-year global plan for sustainable development, it is imperative to modernize, impr...
UN Data Forum opens in South Africa to harness power of data for sustainable development
16 Jan 17 NewsThe inaugural United Nations World Data Forum kicked off yesterday in the South African city of Cape Town, bringing together more than 1,500 data experts from more than 100 countri...
UN World Data Forum set to kick off with ambitious agenda, launching innovative data solutions to improve lives
13 Jan 17 NewsThe inaugural United Nations World Data Forum, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, on 15-18 January 2017, is set to kick off with an ambitious and innovative programme and ros...
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10 Jan 17 NewsLooking ahead: The 2018 Economic Report on Africa – scope of contents (UNECA)
The 2018 ERA will be structured in two parts. Part I will discuss both recent developments in the w...
World Bank Group launches free, interactive, and easy-to-use trade & competitiveness data platform
10 Jan 17 NewsThe World Bank Group yesterday launched TCdata360, a free, open, and easy-to-use online platform that collects, analyzes and visualizes trade and competitiveness data. The website ...
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09 Jan 17 NewsFeatured tweet, @AUTradeIndustry: CFTA Planning retreat from 2-7 January 2017, in Nairobi, Kenya
African integration: facing up to emerging challenges (ICTSD)
This paper exami...
South Africa Merchandise Trade Statistics for November 2016
06 Jan 17 NewsSouth Africa’s trade deficit narrows in November
South Africa posted a trade deficit of ZAR 1.1 billion in November 2016 compared to a downwardly revised ZAR 3.91 billion defici...
Trade data analysis and visualisation
04 Jan 17 ThemesRecognising the paucity and often incomplete and inaccurate trade data available for African countries, tralac periodically reports on the recent trading relationships between the ...
‘Significant discrepancies remain in commodity trading data’ – UNCTAD
24 Dec 16 NewsOn 14 July 2016, recently published a report on primary commodity trade misinvoicing, saying that some countries could lose as much as 67% of commodity exports to misinvoicing. The...
While South Africa slept: why is it not like an Asian economy?
07 Dec 16 PublicationsOver the last fifty years or more the most remarkable feature of global economic growth has been the growth demonstrated by the so-called ‘Asian Tiger’ economies (Hong Kong, Si...
The lack of African countries’ participation in the WTO Environmental Goods Agreement negotiations – what does the data say?
07 Dec 16 DiscussionWillemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses African countries’ noticeable absence in the ongoing multilateral negotiations on environmental goods
According to the WTO Doha M...