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COMESA Court of Justice rules that Mauritius breached the COMESA rules for the Free Trade Area
18 Sep 2013COMESA Court orders a refund of customs duties to a small company
In a landmark case, the COMESA Court of Justice has decided that the Government of Mauritius, by imposing a custo...
read moreExport-led development is no longer viable, UNCTAD says – economies will perform better with more balanced strategies
13 Sep 2013Developing and transition economies need to move towards more balanced growth and give a greater role to domestic demand in their development strategies, a new UNCTAD report conten...
read moreInstitutions and innovation increasingly important for competitiveness
05 Sep 2013Excellent innovation and strong institutional environments are increasingly influencing economies’ competitiveness, according to The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014, whic...
read moreA renewed global partnership for Africa
16 Aug 2013Between 2000 and 2009, eleven African countries grew at an annual rate of 7% or more, sufficient enough to double their economies in ten years. Because Africa’s collective GDP of...
read moreTransnet tests water for better Africa-wide ports integration
14 Aug 2013Topic NewsServicesTransnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) took a step closer toward improving the integration of African port authorities on Wednesday after agreeing with the Namibian Port Authorit...
read moreRegional integration tops council of ministers meeting
14 Aug 2013The implementation of the regional integration process of the member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and financial situation will top the meeting agenda...
read moreFull agenda for 33rd SADC summit in Malawi
12 Aug 2013The SADC Heads of State and Government Summit set for Lilongwe, Malawi this week will deliberate on a wide range of regional issues including the appointment of a new leadership fo...
read morePost 2015 Report launched with calls for a bold agenda for Africa
09 Aug 2013During the launch of the high level panel of the post-2015 global agenda, held at the UN Conference Centre today in Addis Ababa, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Econom...
read moreAfrica’s Agenda 2063 to help address the Continent’s new growth challenges
31 Jul 2013Amidst the new sense of optimism found in Africa’s new natural resources discoveries, rapid urbanisation and increased regional integration, the tripartite partnership of the Afr...
read moreShift from traditional approach to integration to ‘developmental regionalism’, report urges
12 Jul 2013The Economic Development in Africa Report 2013, subtitled “Intra-African Trade: Unlocking Private Sector Dynamism”, says that efforts to date to spur jointly reinforcing e...
read moreObama plan to electrify Africa offers a “new model” of aid
03 Jul 2013During an eight-day trip to Africa, President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious plan to improve access to electricity across the continent, a move the White House says is designed...
read moreDisconnected: African markets remain fragmented and inefficient
03 Jul 2013Africa has over the years been unable to boost internal commerce due to countries’ low level of connectedness, despite the existence of abundant empirical evidence showing that i...
read moreWorld Bank formally urged to overhaul ‘Doing Business’ Report
26 Jun 2013An external review panel is calling on the World Bank to institute sweeping reforms to its widely cited annual “Doing Business” report, including doing away with a controversia...
read moreAfrica’s positive Aid for Trade trends; more needed to overcome constraints
17 Jun 2013Although Aid for Trade in Africa is starting to show results, interventions are urgently needed to overcome the short and long term constraints this was the key message by the Econ...
read moreAU official urges member states to pursue continental integration
22 May 2013Member states of the African Union (AU) and political leaders must muster political will to surrender part of their sovereignty over trade, economic and financial issues to regiona...
read moreAfrica faces the devil’s choice amidst huge natural resources
13 May 2013The leaders of Africa, the world’s poorest continent in terms of economy but richly endowed in natural resources are facing the devil’s choice: to either invest their natural r...
read moreRegional integration key to Africa’s future competitiveness
10 May 2013The strides made by African economies in achieving economic growth must be accompanied by efforts to boost long-term competitiveness if the continent is to ensure sustainable impro...
read moreAfrica must boost commodity-based industrialization to grow economy, end poverty, says ERA 2013
28 Mar 2013African countries have an opportunity to transform their economies through a commodity-based industrialization strategy that leverages the continent’s abundant resources, current...
read moreBRICS membership opens opportunities
26 Mar 2013This week the heads of state of four of the largest economies in the world – collectively representing a fifth of global gross domestic product (GDP) – arrive in Durban for the...
read moreSA in BRICS – Are we making the most of it?
15 Mar 2013The BRICS bloc wants deeper trade and investment ties to underpin its alliance. Troye Lund assesses whether the five members have moved beyond being a loose political gro...
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