Tag: Economic Development

“Our future rests in our hands,” declared Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Mr. Haile Mariam Desalegn on Monday in his keynote speech at the opening of the Conference of the African...

Changes in emerging market asset prices explain over a third of the rise and fall in global equity prices and exchange rates, according to new research from the International Monet...

Since the 1990s, perception-based measures have been influential in determining levels of corruption on the continent. The fourth Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) African Gover...

COMESA Monetary Institute (CMI) is conducting a series of training programmes to help member States manage volatility in prices of their financial markets assets. The focus group f...

SADC Committee of Ministers of Finance and Investment met on Saturday, 12 March 2016 in Gaborone, Botswana. The main objective of this meeting was to consider the outcome of the as...

A financially inclusive ecosystem that takes on board all financial service providers will enhance the regional integration agenda espoused by the Common Market for Eastern and Sou...

Addressing billions of illicit financial outflows from Africa is imperative as the continent needs domestic resources for its development, said the former President of South Africa...

Sustainable development is the Holy Grail of the international community, and the potential roles played by trade and finance lie at the heart of the search effort. The extremely r...

Nearly half of the world’s farmers are unbanked. This statistic is worrying given the evidence linking financial inclusion to poverty alleviation and since over 70 percent of the...

A December 2015 report from Global Financial Integrity finds that developing and emerging economies lost US$7.8 trillion in illicit financial flows from 2004 through ...

Over the last decade, Ethiopia has made remarkable progress in its economic growth exceeding other low income and Sub-Saharan African countries, with real gross domestic product (G...

About 30 finance ministers from across the world have confirmed attendance of the Development Co-operation Forum high-level symposium in Kampala. It is expected to contribute to...

In a “timely and necessary” meeting on illicit financial flows and their impact on development in Africa, Oh Joon, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (...

The heartland of the global economy, the financial system, can evolve to serve its core purpose of growing and sustaining the real economy. A new UNEP report released at the Inter...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission has released the results from its 2015 Global Survey on trade finance – highlighting the impact of the trade financ...

Long-term finance is essential for households, firms and sustainable development. A shortage of long-term financing since the 2008 crisis is choking the investment-backed growth o...

G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors convened for the third time under the Turkish Presidency in Ankara on 4-5 September 2015. The meeting was attended by the Finance ...

The following Executive Summary is from a note by the Staff of the IMF prepared for the Third G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting that took place on...

From 27-28 August in Luanda, the Republic of Angola will host the Meeting of the Ministers of Finance and Governors of the Central African Banks, the African Caucus, with the aim o...

The SADC Third Peer Review Panel meeting of Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors commenced in Bulawayo, Republic of Zimbabwe on 3 August 2015 to deliberate on key aspect...