Tag: Economic Development

Industrialisation for Job Creation and Shared Prosperity Introduction The Budget for Fiscal Year 2017/18 is themed: “Industrialisation for Job Creation and Shared Prosperity”...

A key pillar of the G20 Africa Partnership is the ‘Compact with Africa’ (CwA), an initiative within the G20’s finance track, coordinated by the German Federal Minis...

In recognition of Africa Day 2017, Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the significant recent decision by the AU to adopt a new self-funding mechanism Introduction The...

Ashly Hope, tralac Associate, discusses the concept of regulatory coherence in the context of financial services regulation in Africa Modern trade agreements are concerned less an...

For Tanzania, bringing even more money within everyone’s reach is key In less than eight years, there has been extraordinary progress in bringing the majority of Tanzanians into...

Botswana has just completed a National Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Risk Assessment. The National Risk Assessment (NRA) was supported by the...

A lack of adequate collateral is preventing many of Nigeria’s small businesses from accessing the capital needed to grow, according to a new report The Credit Crunch, published b...

What should policymakers do to improve the enabling environment for trade and finance to better contribute to sustainable development? The primacy of economic institutions as dete...

Rwanda has introduced a new law enabling the levying of a tax on imported goods, with proceeds going to the financing of the African Union. A Cabinet meeting chaired by Pres...

EABC Trade and Policy Brief as at 10 February 2017 The EAC Sectoral Council on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (SCTIFI) held its ordinary meeting from 30th Jan to 3rd...

The days of queuing up at the bank for a teller are numbered. More Ugandans are accessing cash at their convenience – at point of sale, and also via automated teller machines, th...

At this year’s Africa Mining Vision day, some of Africa’s most influential mining industry leaders and government counterparts debated strategies to counter Illicit Financial F...

Nearly 20 leading global banks and investors, totaling $6.6 trillion in assets, launched the Principles for Positive Impact Finance on 30 January 2017 – a first of its kind set o...

Group highlights 14 steps African leaders can take to energize fight against illicit flows following Addis Ababa Action Agenda, SDGs, and ECA High Level Panel As national leaders ...

As recently as two decades ago, it was nearly impossible to find a home with a telephone in sub-Saharan Africa. Just one person in a hundred owned a fixed line; for everyone else...

Financial services, foreign investment, and international aid are essential for improved trade and long-term development in poor economies. tralac’s work in this area examines ho...

tralac research advisor, Ashly Hope, travelled to Lesotho from 20-23 November 2016 to conduct a workshop on financial sector policy development, and to engage with trade officials....

On November 16, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) discussed a staff paper on “Financing for Development: Enhancing the Financial Safety Net for D...

Tax revenues collected in advanced economies have continued to increase from last year’s all-time high, with taxes on labour and consumption representing an increasing share of t...

A two-day workshop aimed at Stakeholders working to confront the challenge of stemming illicit financial flows (IFFs) from Africa opened in Nairobi Monday, with the Economic Commis...