Tag: Digital economy
How countries can expand access to digital financial services
04 May 20 NewsA new World Bank report provides valuable insights for policymakers and for financial sector players seeking to expedite financial inclusion and development of digital financial se...
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29 Apr 20 NewsThe Intra-Africa Trade Fair, scheduled to take place in Kigali in September this year, has been postponed to September 2021
President Ramaphosa, as Chair of the African Union, con...
Recovery from the Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: What Role for Trade?
07 Apr 20 BlogThe economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on African countries will be known only after the situation is brought under control. There will be immediate shocks to livelihoods, a...
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06 Apr 20 NewsAfrican Union: Impact of the Coronavirus Covid-19 on the African economy
Based on the description of specific key indicators of the African economy three scenarios are constructed...
Protecting the vulnerable and excluded in the financial sector
06 Apr 20 BlogAs the global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, it brings with it a global economic crisis. With economies only now beginning to properly recover from the glob...
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01 Apr 20 NewsSouth Africa: February 2020 trade surplus of R14.15bn (SARS)
The South African Revenue Service has released trade statistics for February 2020 which record a trade surplus of R14....
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19 Mar 20 NewsThe AfCFTA and the US-Kenya Free Trade Agreement challenge: getting beyond divide-and-rule (Wilson Center’s African Program)
Hardly had South African President Cyril Ramaphosa s...
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02 Mar 20 NewsIGAD protocol on free movement of persons endorsed at ministerial meeting (IGAD)
Ministers in charge of Internal Affairs and those in charge of Labour of Member States of the Inte...
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18 Feb 20 NewsDiarise:
Special Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa ( 24 February, Victoria Falls). The session will focus on leveraging the Decade of Action for the re...
AfCFTA and the digital reality of trade today
13 Feb 20 PublicationsDigitisation has contributed to a changing trade environment in many ways – facilitating multinational value chains, enabling the rise of the micro-multinational and giving us ne...
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11 Feb 20 NewsPosted in Addis: The 2020 AU Handbook
US revokes WTO subsidy preferences for South Africa and some other countries (Bloomberg, Fin24)
The Trump administration is changing a key e...
Finding African Solutions for the Taxation of Digital Trade
19 Dec 19 BlogThe development of the digital economy has brought many public policy and administrative challenges to governments worldwide. Among these is how an international taxation system th...
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06 Dec 19 NewsNext week, in Addis: Committee on Private Sector Development, Regional Integration, Trade, Infrastructure, Industry and Technology. Extracts from featured submissions:
Issues ...
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29 Nov 19 NewsGlobal Ireland: Ireland’s new Strategy for Africa, to 2025 (DFA)
To increase the value of two-way trade between Ireland and Africa to at least €5n by 2025 and to pro...
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25 Nov 19 NewsA preview of the East African Business and Investment Summit (28-29 November, Arusha)
Harmonising airspace is one of the issues that the East Africa Business Council will discuss...
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15 Nov 19 NewsNigeria to form border force with neighbors Benin and Niger to fight smuggling (Reuters)
Nigeria and neighboring countries Benin and Niger have agreed to set up a joint border pat...
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14 Nov 19 NewsDigitising logistics in Africa (Briter Bridges)
Progressively more businesses operating in African markets are adopting digital solutions to monitor their supply chain or broaden ...
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13 Nov 19 NewsDiarise:
Committee on Private Sector Development, Regional Integration, Trade, Infrastructure, Industry and Technology (11-12 December, Addis Ababa)
In 2019, the ECA Conference o...
Services Are the New Economy
26 Oct 19 BlogAs the digitalisation of the global economy progresses, the value size of the services economy relative to the ‘real’ economy is steadily rising. Before computers and the inter...
Africa’s Digital Connectivity Dividend in Waiting
26 Oct 19 Blog“We have to be able to provide infrastructure and digital connectivity to the lowest common denominator at the most affordable price if we really want digital transformation to t...