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15 Apr 19 NewsZimbabwe Infrastructure Report 2019 (AfDB)
Zimbabwe has faced headwinds over the last decade resulting in a collapse of the economy. However, following the political transition of...
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Sub-Saharan Africa: IMF lays out policies for economic recovery amid elevated uncertainty
15 Apr 19 NewsNavigating Sub-Saharan Africa’s Recovery Amid Greater Uncertainty
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic recovery is set to continue, but along two tracks. Overall growth is set to pic...
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12 Apr 19 NewsJoint AfDB, AUC, UNECA, Afreximbank expert group meeting on informal cross-border trade (16-17 April, Abidjan)
Informal cross-border trade has remained a dilemma for the African c...
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10 Apr 19 NewsConcluding today, in Windhoek: UNCTAD regional capacity building training workshop on the use of statistics and the Productive Capacities Index to inform evidence-based policy-maki...
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09 Apr 19 NewsFeatured tweet, @EgyptAbaba: Few minutes ago, I officially deposited Egypt AfCFTA ratification instrument. Egypt is 18th depositor of the free trade area and four more to go to ent...
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08 Apr 19 NewsThe World Bank-IMF 2019 Spring Meetings open today in Washington
UNCTAD’s Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Competition Law and Policy takes place today in Geneva
UNCTAD’s eComm...
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01 Mar 19 NewsFeatured tweet, infographic, @fadyhocheimy: So I sent DHL from Gambia to Senegal and this is how it traveled to get there. There is a direct 25 min flight almost daily between Gamb...
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DHL Global Connectedness Index: Globalization hits new record high
15 Feb 19 NewsInternational flows of trade, capital, information and people all intensified significantly for the first time since 2007
DHL has released the fifth edition of the DHL Global Conn...
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14 Feb 19 NewsNegotiating African trade policy:
Event reminders
Expert meeting on Non-Tariff Barriers (NTB) Reporting, Monitoring and Elimination under the AfCFTA (concluded today in Nairo...
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Prospects for reforming/strengthening the WTO
14 Feb 19 BlogMedia coverage of the discussions at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos (which combined globalization issues with the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”) sketched a mixed and...
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Illicit financial flows are significant and persistent drag on developing country economies
30 Jan 19 NewsTrade misinvoicing undermines the impact of international trade in developing nations
A new analysis of illicit financial flows (IFFs) due to trade misinvoicing in 148 developing ...
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25 Jan 19 NewsEvents listing, Part I
Profiled African trade and development events, starting Monday, for your events calendar:
TFTA Technical Committee on Legal Affairs (28-29 January, Nairobi...
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24 Jan 19 NewsAfCFTA ratification update, Ambassador Albert Muchanga: Good news! The threshold is within grasp! Parliament of Senegal approved ratification of AfCFTA Agreement yesterday. Se...
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Africa’s youth ready for a digital future but leaders are lagging behind: Ramaphosa at WEF 2019
24 Jan 19 NewsIf Africa’s leaders do not act quickly to move the continent into the 21st century, young people will leave them behind, South Africa’s President Cyril M. Ramaphosa said today ...
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Shaping Africa’s agenda in the global context: President Kagame at WEF 2019
24 Jan 19 NewsRwanda’s Paul Kagame delivered remarks at a discussion with African Heads of State on Shaping Africa’s Agenda in the Global Context as part of the 2019 World Economic Foru...
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23 Jan 19 NewsTalking African economy at Davos: The AfCFTA and a unified market (Africa Times)
When it comes to a unified African market, Bernard Gautier, deputy CEO of French investment firm W...
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Talking African economy at Davos: The AfCFTA and a unified market
23 Jan 19 NewsWhen it comes to a unified African market – the topic of Tuesday’s panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos – Bernard Gautier, deputy CEO of French investment fi...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection – a WEF special focus
22 Jan 19 NewsThe World Economic Forum 2019 began today in Davos: an easy guide
Today’s profiled WEF session: Achieving a single market in Africa
Africa needs to create 18 million jobs ...
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Signs suggest global economic growth spurt has peaked but will remain steady at 3 percent in 2019-2020
22 Jan 19 NewsEconomic prospects threatened by weakened support for multilateralism, tightening of financial conditions and heightened trade tensions
The global economy will continue to grow at...
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Global creative economy shows resilience, growth – report
17 Jan 19 NewsThe remarkable story of China’s dominance in the trade of creative goods and services is the golden thread of a new creative economy outlook by UNCTAD.
With export growth rates ...
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