Tag: Global economy

Global economic growth is forecast to edge up to 2.5% in 2020 as investment and trade gradually recover from last year’s significant weakness but downward risks persist, the Worl...

WBG/IMF Annual Meetings: selected updates The Broadband for All Working Group: Achieving broadband access for all in Africa comes with a $100bn price tag Intergovernmenta...

African trade policy events to diarise: The first meeting of the AfCFTA Council of Ministers responsible for trade takes place next week in Addis Ababa (24-25 October). It wil...

Seventy five years ago, in July 1944, while World War II was still raging, delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the United States, for ...

Rethinking the International Trade Architecture: address by WTO’s DDG Alan Wolff at the Institute for International Trade, Adelaide The topic of our conference is “Rethinking ...

Madagascar has notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it has initiated three safeguard investigations: on soaps, lubricating oils and on vegetable oils and margarines T...

The Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development began today in Yokohama on the theme Advancing Africa’s development through people, technology and innovation. T...

Victor Harison, Mario Pezzini: Firms must drive Africa’s transformation (Project Syndicate) But if the AfCFTA is to fulfill its promise, African firms will need to prepare for a...

A tralac Guide to this weekend’s G7 Summit, next week’s TICAD7 The G7 starts tomorrow, concluding on Sunday: selected previews A Japan Times preview: Leaders from the Gr...

The 39th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of SADC, and preceding meetings, starts tomorrow in Dar es Salaam, ending on 18 August Funding the AfCFTA Secretariat...

The latest report released by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) approved on 6 October 2018 is a stark reminder of the dire consequences and impact of global w...

Kenya: Ruto, Raila jointly launch national export strategy (The Standard) Deputy President William Ruto and Opposition chief Raila Odinga yesterday launched a national export stra...

Underway, in Niamey: 9th Session of African Ministers of Trade in preparation for the Extra-Ordinary Summit scheduled for 7 July. The summit will also be preceded by the Civil Soci...

Two key trade policy events are taking place this week: The Aid for Trade Global Review 2019 gets underway in Geneva on Wednesday, ending on Friday. By addressing the supply-...

Concluding today, in Geneva: Seventh IMF-WB-WTO Trade conference. WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo delivered the opening speech. AfCFTA updates: Morocco’s MPs, yesterd...

Selected trade events now underway: Today in Nairobi: EABC-ITC-TMEA Regional consultative workshop on AfCFTA Tariff Offers and engagement on trade in services Tomorrow, in Johann...

Today is Budget Day across East Africa. Selected country previews: Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania African trade policy events to diarise: 25th African Organisation for Standard...

The inter-connected nature (and vulnerability) of the global trading system was dramatically demonstrated with the announcement on 15 May 2019 by the US Commerce Department that co...

A selection of African trade and development events to diarise: The 2019-2020 Mauritius Budget was presented to the National Assembly today. Download the full Budget Speech on the...

Selected resources, previews of this weekend’s G20 Trade Ministerial in Japan: The IMF’s G20 Surveillance Note, other IMF G20 resources; Asia Times: G20 finance ministers lan...