Tag: Trade in services
How might Africa benefit from e-commerce technology?
19 Jun 18 BlogWorld trade has entered a new mode; one that is to international trade what the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ is to traditional manufacturing. Digital tools now make it possib...
AU services experts meet to develop services sector development program in the context of the AfCFTA
19 Jun 18 NewsThe Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission is organizing from 18-22 June 2018 in Nairobi, the AU Experts Meeting on the Services Sector Development Progra...
COMESA searching for solutions to transform and sustain competitive businesses
19 Jun 18 NewsThe COMESA-Connect Industry Dialogue set for June 21st to 22nd, in Kigali, will bring together high level technical expertise from the public and private sector to provide common s...
EAC greener pasture countries for highly skilled Kenyans
06 Jun 18 NewsRwanda, Tanzania and Uganda are the key destinations for high-skilled Kenyan migrants, attracted by opportunities in financial, IT, engineering and hospitality sectors, a new UN re...
Creating a better global trade system
31 May 18 NewsRecent news on global trade has tended to focus on protectionist measures and diplomatic tensions. These challenges have raised concerns over growth and jobs across the world.
Yet...
The Rising Potential of e-Commerce for Trade and Development in Africa
30 May 18 PublicationsThe world economy has changed at a faster pace in the last thirty years than at any time in history. The mid-1990s brought on the so-called ‘information age’ and the age of the...
Structural transformation and export diversification in Southern Africa
18 May 18 NewsWhat determines economic disparities among countries and how can we move forward to reduce these income gaps?
The development economics literature has studied how countries get ri...
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16 May 18 NewsAUC holding workshop series to develop next phase of PIDA
The Arab and the Maghreb Union and IGAD were the first of the eight RECs to kick-start a continental consultative process...
Ethiopia Economic Update: The inescapable manufacturing-services nexus
16 May 18 NewsServices & Manufacturing Linkages: Exploring the Potential of Distribution Services
This Ethiopia Economic Update focuses on the connection between services and manufacturing,...
Commissioner Albert Muchanga: “We are welcoming the concrete beginning of the journey to create one African market”
11 May 18 NewsDedicated Session of the African Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Forum (AfCFTA-NF) underway
The Department of Trade and Industry is organizing the Dedicated Session of the...
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09 May 18 NewsUnderway in Cape Town: tralac’s first training workshop for journalists who write on trade and integration matters.
The workshop includes practical exercises, reviewing cas...
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08 May 18 NewsEckart Naumann: Trump’s steel and aluminium tariff action – putting America first? (tralac)
This paper includes an overview of the recently published trade policy agenda to pr...
Trade in services for inclusive and sustainable development: Water and sanitation, energy and food-related logistics
08 May 18 NewsExperts met in Geneva from 7-8 May 2018 to examine how to facilitate and expand services trade to achieve the relevant Sustainable Development Goals under the 2030 Agenda, with a f...
Manufacturing sector and Nigeria’s economic growth pattern
02 May 18 NewsRedesigning Policy Intervention for Inclusive Growth
Since the year 2000, Nigeria’s economic growth has not delivered significant poverty and unemployment reduction. While GDP g...
Financial inclusion on the rise, but gaps remain, Global Findex Database shows
20 Apr 18 News515 million adults have opened accounts since 2014
Financial inclusion is on the rise globally, accelerated by mobile phones and the internet, but gains have been uneven across co...
Air Freight Monthly Analysis – February 2018: Africa tops the international growth chart once again
06 Apr 18 NewsStrong start to 2018 for FTK growth, but upward trend has eased
Demand for air freight has benefited in recent years from a stronger global trade backdrop, as well as an inventory...
Mauritius and China reiterate determination to consolidate economic and trade relations
04 Apr 18 NewsMauritius and China have reiterated their determination towards consolidating economic and trade relations by signing the agreed minutes pertaining to the first round of negotiatio...
Mauritius-China FTA to strengthen economic cooperation in various sectors
03 Apr 18 NewsThe first round of negotiations on the Mauritius-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA), kicked off yesterday at Maritim Resort & Spa, in Balaclava.
The FTA aims at creating th...
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27 Mar 18 NewsAfCFTA special selection (2)
Trade and development events to diarise:
2018 Spring Meetings of the IMF, WBG (16-22 April, Washington)
53rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governor...
Services and structural transformation for development
27 Mar 18 NewsThis report contains papers and contributions delivered at the fifth session of UNCTAD’s multi-year expert meeting on trade, services and development: the role of the services ec...