Tag: Industrial policy - tralac trade law centre

How viable are auto component regional value chains in Africa?

21 Jan 20 Blog

Automotive components are the building blocks of automobiles and hence are a key part of the one of the world’s largest manufacturing industries. Within Africa the automotive com...

What if Africa were to liberalise the intra-Africa automotive components trade?

21 Jan 20 Blog

What if Africa were to liberalise the intra-Africa automotive components trade? A forthcoming tralac working paper (by this author) presents the results of a simulation of the comp...

South Africa’s Role in the Automotive Components Trade in Africa

21 Jan 20 Blog

Africa is a continent that is, in general, dependent on the rest of the world (ROW) for manufactured imports. There are some exceptions to this, one of them being the automotive co...

Enhancing benefits of market and financial integration in SACU: some policy options

13 Dec 19 Publications

This Working Paper provides some policy options confronting members of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Common Monetary Area (CMA) arrangements, which are closely ...

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22 Nov 19 News

The International Trade Centre has posted a major new report - Diversifying trade in Africa: New strategy approaches for the AfCFTA This [AfCFTA] greement requires policyma...

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18 Nov 19 News

Underway in Addis Ababa: (i) SheTrades Global 2019 (held in conjunction with the World Export Development Forum). Discussions will engage with women entrepreneurs from 40 bu...

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30 Oct 19 News

Diarise: World Bank Group's Fragility Forum 2020 (2-4 March, 2020): The Forum will focus on implementation: the concrete approaches that are needed to maximize our collecti...

Attracting Scarce Skills: How does South Africa’s skills immigration regime fare in addressing skills deficits?

23 Oct 19 Publications

There have been prominent statements this year suggesting that skills immigration is high on the Ramaphosa government’s agenda. However, behind the headlines, matters are less th...

How Similar are Africa’s Exporters? Implications for the AfCFTA

16 Oct 19 Blog

Africa is a continent of great diversity, perhaps more so than any other of the continents. It is a continent richly endowed with resources and these endowments have long formed th...

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16 Sep 19 News

AfCFTA sensitisation workshops: Malawi, Kenya Malawi to host AfCFTA sensitization workshops. The Ministry of Trade and Tourism, in partnership with the ECA and the AUC, is org...

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05 Sep 19 News

Diarise African trade and regional integration events: 25th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts of Southern Africa: Strategies and poli...

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19 Aug 19 News

The High-Level Policy Dialogue, Harnessing the benefits of the AfCFTA for a Ghana Beyond Aid, opened today in Accra: “Execute your watchdog role effectively”: Akufo-Addo tells...

SADC hosts the 39th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

19 Aug 19 News

The 39th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was held at Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre i...

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15 Aug 19 News

Towards the AfCFTA Country Business Index: ad-hoc expert group meeting to review methodological approach The ECA has proposed the establishment of an AfCFTA Country Business Index...

SADC develops regional industry protocol

14 Aug 19 News

A legal instrument that aims to improve the policy environment for industrial development and support implementation will be presented for approval by the 39th SADC Summit tha...

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13 Aug 19 News

Featured tweet, @jattamensah: Ghana, with the AU and the ECA, will host a conference on the implementation of the AfCFTA from 19-21 August (Accra). The keynote speaker is the prime...

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06 Aug 19 News

4th SADC Industrialisation Week: selected updates President Magufuli pushes for intra-African trade. Opening the 4th SADC Industrialisation Week and Exhibition in Dar es Salaa...

39th SADC Summit: Towards Inclusive, Sustainable Industrial Development

06 Aug 19 News

Leaders from southern Africa are meeting for their annual summit next week to chart the development agenda of the region. Running under the theme “A Conducive Environment f...

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15 Jul 19 News

Starting tomorrow, in Niamey: Lake Chad Basin Governors Forum 2019. The forum (16-18 July) will assess cooperation and firm up plans for the region’s stabilization. tralac’s l...

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11 Jul 19 News

Next week in Nairobi: “It’s all systems go as Kenya readies to host Africa’s leading premier SME gathering, the Kenya Trade Week and COMESA High Level Business Summit, 15-21 ...