Tag: Business regulation

On February 21, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund concluded the Article IV consultation with Somalia. Despite a severe drought and sporadic terrorist at...

The South African Department of Labour is hosting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Employment and Labour Sector Tripartite Technical Meeting at the Cape Town Inter...

In the current economic climate, spending priorities and the sequencing of programme implementation are subject to a number of trade-offs. The focus of the 2018 Budget has solely b...

With a new leader at the helm and confidence improving, growth in South Africa, Africa’s most-industrialized economy, may accelerate to levels last seen in 2014, according to Nat...

How Kenya’s famous roses almost missed Valentines Day – a stimulating twitter thread, by @MatinaStevis, of her Wall Street Journal article posted yesterday: “First things fi...

African countries should take make use of factoring in order to take advantage of the opportunities for expanding the continent’s regional value chains, participants at a regiona...

Starting today, in New York: The Platform for Collaboration on Tax global conference Diarise: The 6th edition of the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan (26-27 March) on the theme African...

African trade policy events to diarise: (i) With the Extraordinary AU Summit scheduled for the signing of the CFTA now taking place in Kigali, tralac’s Annual Conference will ta...

The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) has introduced a new guide on doing business in Africa. South African’s trade with the region has grown significantly over the...

Starting today, in Tunis: AfDB workshop on staple crop processing zones in Africa Building on the analyses and findings of a Bank-led study on a sample of 10 African countries, th...

Brazil submitted an extensive draft proposal for a potential agreement on investment facilitation to the WTO’s General Council last week, in a bid to jumpstart more “...

With a GDP growth rate projected to reach 7 percent in 2018 and 2019, Côte d’Ivoire continues to be one of the most dynamic economies in Africa. The sixth Economic Updat...

Enhancing financial stability to promote business confidence Presented by Dr. J P. Mangudya, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe The Statement comes at a time when the econo...

Featured trade infographic, @ECA_OFFICIAL: Intra-Africa trade in agricultural products is underexploited. Trade liberalization under CFTA is expected to result in significant expor...

The government plans to zero rate both the Import Declaration Tax and the Railway Development Levy on all imported raw materials to be used in manufacturing processes locally. The...

The expert group meeting on “Macroeconomic policies and women’s economic empowerment” took place on 5-6 February 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The event brought together more tha...

Botswana Finance Minister Kenneth Matambo expects the warming global economy and rising commodity prices to underpin the country’s buoyant forecasts for revenues and growth in 20...

Angola and Morocco last month became the latest African nations to loosen long-held currency pegs, following the lead of Nigeria and Egypt as they sought to revive struggling econo...

Published in Addis: African Union Handbook 2018 The book has at its heart information about the principal organs established by the AU Constitutive Act and subsequent protocols: t...

The long-awaited South African international arbitration legislation is now in force.[1] The International Arbitration Act 15 of 2017 (International Arbitration Act) was passed by ...