Tag: Global economy

Unprecedented corporate engagement on key climate issues including carbon pricing, finance, responsible policy engagement and science-based targets were announced on 8 December 201...

Climate is, in economic terms, an externality. The pursuit of conventional economic growth, particularly through production and energy processes, can cause incremental changes to t...

Brian Mureverwi, tralac intern, comments on the launch of a new flagship trade report from The Commonwealth Secretariat The Commonwealth Secretariat is launching its inaugural Tra...

The new Sustainable Development Goals will only succeed if they can succeed in Africa. How can we make that happen? A new report from the Africa Progress Panel, Global Goals, Afric...

The current growth in agricultural production, especially in Africa, could mean that in the next ten years world prices for food will remain flat or even decline, according to a se...

Illicit Trade: fighting money laundering in international trade Remarks by David M. Luna, Senior Director for National Security and Diplomacy Anti-Crime Progra...

World leaders, heads of global financial institutions and other dignitaries are heading to New York, where, after months of intense negotiations, the United Nations is set to launc...

A bold new global agenda to end poverty by 2030 and pursue a sustainable future was unanimously adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations on 25 September 2015 at the s...

The year 2015 is an important one for global development as the Millennium Development Goals endorsed in 2000 with 8 goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators are coming to an end in le...

Global leaders are poised to adopt a set of targets tackling the world’s biggest challenges. These targets include the ambitious goal of ending extreme poverty in a generation.&...

Strong crop yields, higher productivity and slower growth in global demand should contribute to a gradual decline in real prices for agricultural products over the coming decade, b...

Development cannot be sustainable if it does not address the challenge of climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Member States on Monday as he opened a H...

Illicit financial flows (IFFs), stemming from crime, corruption, and tax evasion, have an outsized impact on the world’s poorest countries, according to a new study released on 3...

The world still lives in the shadow of the global financial crisis that began in the United States in 2008. The U.S. experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial system...

Growth in sub-Saharan Africa should remain robust but decelerate in the wake of the decline in oil and commodity prices. The IMF’s latest Regional Economic Outlook for sub-...

Delegates from over 190 nations meeting in Lima, Peru have agreed to a text framed as a key stepping stone towards building a new climate regime to come into force at the end of th...

Remarks by Ambassador Michael Froman at the Brookings Institution, 29 July 2014 A Shared History Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Human progress is neither automatic nor...

Fraudulent trade transactions channeled at least US$60.8 billion illegally in or out of 5 African countries from 2002-2011 The fraudulent misinvoicing of trade is hampering econom...

Africa’s rising economic star is in danger of burning out from even a modest contraction in China’s economy as that country’s demand for natural resources decreases, war...

The current EU-US negotiations should be a wake-up call for African governments to be proactive and limit the burden that a trade deal of this magnitude will unquestionably bring a...