Tag: Extractive industries

As Mozambique begins to emerge from a two-year economic downturn, a new World Bank report warns that the country’s fiscal outlook remains fragile. Buoyed by a drop in inflation ...

Today’s trade-related event postings: Uganda’s Ministry of Trade, this morning, launched the Uganda Trade Information Portal. A related update from Rwanda. The Govern...

SADC Business Council foundational meeting: @SthrnAfrcaTrust updates Tomorrow, 7 November, at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Johannesburg Airport, @SthrnAfrcaTrust and @TheNBF will host t...

Alert: The Doing Business 2019 report will be released tomorrow (Wednesday) Featured newsletter: African Cotton, Textiles & Apparel Monitor #32 Featured trade commentaries: R...

The second edition of the Compact with Africa (CwA) investment monitoring report provides an update of country and sector-level trends in Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) flows and...

Propensity for misinvoicing merits serious attention in Uganda, says new Global Financial Integrity study There are always political risk and capacity gaps in coordinating governm...

Kenya Economic Update: In search of fiscal space – who benefits from government spending and taxation? (World Bank) The report builds on the options to enhance domestic revenue ...

Featured tweet, @RencapMan: Who’s got the biggest economy in Africa in 2018? If you use the NGN325 exchange rate, it is Nigeria. If you use the market rate, South Africa has retu...

African freight volumes, passenger demand: IATA’s June analysis Freight trends: All regions except Africa reported a year-on-year increase in freight volumes in June 2018, but ...

Towards an EAC Regional Intellectual Property Policy: 15 August is closing date for completion of a questionnaire to inform the policy Netpreneurs event: “Let’s make Afri...

BRICS Business Forum: selected highlights President Xi Jinping's address:  Keeping abreast of the trend of the times to achieve common development We are witnessing major c...

Kenya and Tanzania are among nine African countries set to benefit from an ambitious US-led initiative to invest in gas-powered power plants. The Gas Roadmap for sub-Saharan Afric...

Updated: tralac’s AfCFTA Ratification Barometer UNU-WIDER has posted an early view of the forthcoming book Industries without Smoke-stacks: Industrialization in Africa reconside...

Brief on Balance of Payments Statistics for First Quarter of 2018 The provisional Balance of Payments (BOP) estimates for Q1 2018 showed a significant improvement in the country...

A reminder that the SACU Heads of State Summit took place today in Gaborone. SA’s President Ramaphosa will be accompanied by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies, an...

On 13 June 2016, the Senate referred the following matter to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee for inquiry and report by 14 February 2018: Australi...

Boosting growth and prosperity through agribusiness, extractives, and tourism The Tanzania Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS) 2017 identifies priority actions in support of...

Angola: The Road to Economic Reform The IMF recently completed its annual health check of the Angolan economy and found that the country, under a new administration, has...

An update by the Namibia Trade Forum The total value of exports in 2016 was N$ 66 billion, which dropped by -5% in 2017 to N$ 63 billion. Imports also reduced by -10% (N$ 9.5 bill...

UNCTAD: World Investment Report 2018 Developed economies saw the biggest drop in FDI flows in 2017 – at 37%, to $712bn – but this was to some extent expected, after a spike in...