Tag: Brexit

The International Monetary Fund cut its forecasts for global economic growth this year and next as the unexpected U.K. vote to leave the European Union creates a wave of uncertaint...

The UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty (APPG-TOP) is undertaking an inquiry into the UK’s Africa Free Trade Initiative (AFTi). The Inquiry has been ext...

In preparing this paper, Stephen Lande and Dennis Matanda leverage their extensive first-hand experience with both the African Union and Africa’s regional economic communities. T...

Brexit could be the ideal time for UK companies to begin trading with Africa, particularly Ethiopia, and opportunities should be seized upon, according to experts. Free of the&nbs...

In a surprise outcome for many in Europe and beyond, British people have voted to leave the European Union. The macroeconomic implications of this decision are already being felt,...

Extension of Call for Evidence The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty (APPG-TOP) is undertaking an inquiry into the UK’s Africa Free Trade Initiative (AFTi), ...

Now that the immediate turmoil of Britain’s exit vote from the European Union has somewhat subsided, it is a good time to ask what lessons that vote holds for the East African ...

Seldom has a single political event revealed such an astounding degree of failure to grasp and prepare for the consequences of an act of self-inflicted harm. The Economist writes o...

One would certainly be forgiven if, like us, you found yourself doing a double take at the news that Britain’s public voted in favour of leaving the EU. This is because shor...

The UK referendum on whether to stay in the EU will have an impact far beyond Europe. Africans are also watching closely – and have to prepare to deal with the vote’s consequen...

The UK’s possible exit from the EU could prompt a renegotiation of the recently signed EU-Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), Will...

Roberto Azevêdo says leave vote would present complex and unusual situation with UK unable to ‘cut and paste’ its former EU-negotiated trade deals Negotiations about the shap...