Tag: Economic Development

Speech by Deputy Minister of Finance Mcebisi Jonas at the 2016 ABSIP Financial Services Sector Conference, 8 November 2016, Johannesburg Before I begin with my opening remarks, I ...

Africa must institute stronger financial control mechanisms and capacity-building for customer due diligence and corporate governance in order to attract capital competitively and ...

The world needs a new mechanism to deal with sovereign debt crises, which represent a growing danger to the economic stability of many developing countries. The world needs a new ...

Delivering financial services by mobile phone could benefit billions of people by spurring inclusive growth that adds $3.7 trillion to the GDP of emerging economies within a decade...

Ashly Hope, tralac Research Advisor, comments on the importance of investment in financial sector development for successful industrialisation in the 21st century Industrialisatio...

Ashly Hope, tralac Research Advisor, comments on financial sector regulation and how the Continental Free Trade Area negotiations could be used to help realise wider development ob...

tralac presented a training course for the Regional Integration Directorate of the Ministry of Finance in Lesotho during the week of 3-7 October 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa. T...

Worldwide policy actions to harness the global financial system for sustainable development have more than doubled over the last five years, but more effort is needed to turn this ...

The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa present a diversified landscape of economic growth, according to the new Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s twice-yearly analysis of economic ...

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) on 22 September 2016 announced financial results for the 12-month period to 31 March 2016. Amid economic headwinds, the DBSA del...

Weak trade growth and financial distortions are exacerbating slow global economic growth, according to the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Outlook. The global economy is pro...

South Africa has made significant progress to improve the financial risk management of its public debt portfolio thanks to a tailor-made model designed to analyze the costs and ris...

With over 25 years of experience in the global business sector, Mauritius is well positioned to make significant contribution in attracting, mobilising and channeling the necessa...

More than two billion people worldwide are without bank accounts. Most are poor and only a third of adults in sub-Saharan Africa have access to any kind of basic financial services...

Promoting Financial Inclusion in West Africa: ECOWAS Regional Conference Remarks by IMF Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa in Dakar, 20 September 2016 Good morning....

African Union two-day conference of Ministers of Finance concluded with the general consensus on the need to speedily implement the Financing of the African Union by 2017. The con...

The African Union’s financing requirements are increasing with the evolution of projects and development programs of the continent. This therefore underscores the need for reliab...

Commentary around recent developments in the economies of sub-Saharan Africa has centered on a trifecta of threats: low commodity prices, China’s slowdown, and the rising cost of...

Ashly Hope, tralac Research Advisor, comments on the current overhaul of South Africa’s financial sector regulation South Africa’s financial sector regulatory landscape is in ...

Blockchain will fundamentally alter the way financial institutions do business around the world, according to a new World Economic Forum report, The future of financial infr...