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South Africa Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement 2018: Reforms to boost the economy

25 Oct 18 News

Government on Wednesday announced the proposed reprioritisation of R32.4 billion over the next three years as part of reforms to boost the South African economy. In the Medium Ter...

South Africa welcomes product exclusion for some steel and aluminium products from the Section 232 duties

25 Oct 18 News

The US Department of Commerce has granted product exemptions for imports of 161 aluminium and 36 steel products from the Section 232 duties that the United States imposed against f...

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22 Oct 18 News

Diarise: (i) The East African Legislative Assembly resumed its sitting in Arusha this morning: it continues until 10 November. This week’s EAC calendar of events can be accessed...

Kenyan Industry recommends sectoral strategies to achieve the Big Four Agenda

22 Oct 18 News

The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has launched a report that seeks to identify cross-cutting constraints to growth, possible solutions, and sector-specific interventions...

Changing nature of competitiveness poses challenges for future of the global economy

17 Oct 18 News

The WEF’s annual study on the global economy finds a competitiveness landscape radically altered by the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution The changing nature of economi...

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12 Oct 18 News

Diarise: (i) COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Transport and Transit Facilitation Programme: validation workshop for cross border road transport agreements, model laws and regulations (2...

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09 Oct 18 News

Featured tweet, @RencapMan: Who’s got the biggest economy in Africa in 2018? If you use the NGN325 exchange rate, it is Nigeria. If you use the market rate, South Africa has retu...

Jobs Summit ends on a high note: Historic agreement signed, sealed, delivered

05 Oct 18 News

Wrapping up the two-day Jobs Summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on all stakeholders to roll-up their sleeves and create the much needed jobs in the country. “This summ...

Africa’s Pulse: Growth in sub-Saharan Africa is slower than expected

04 Oct 18 News

Investments in non-resource sectors, jobs, and efficient firms and workers are needed Sub-Saharan African economies are still recovering from the slowdown in 2015-16, but growth i...

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28 Sep 18 News

South Africa’s August 2018 merchandise trade statistics show a R8.79 billion surplus from an upwardly revised R5.29 billion deficit in July and above market expectations. “We e...

Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa: Enhanced and innovative global partnerships key to a successful AfCFTA

26 Sep 18 News

High-level event on Enhancing global partnerships for IDDA III held on the margins of the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York Heads of States, high-level representatives of ...

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21 Sep 18 News

The ATPC’s David Luke: The ECA has received requests from a dozen countries and/or RECs for support in developing an AfCFTA country strategy Potential of manufacturing and indus...

AfCFTA will spur Africa’s industrialization and economic development, says ECA’s David Luke

21 Sep 18 News

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a tool that countries can use to create opportunities for African businesses and through them drive the continent’s industrial...

Intra-African trade key to continent’s economic growth, says Mauritian Minister

18 Sep 18 News

The 24th Session of the Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Southern Africa opened in Mauritius today with an impassioned plea from Foreign Affairs, Regional Integrati...

Blue economy can be engine of Africa’s economic growth if well utilized, says ECA’s Adejumobi

18 Sep 18 News

The Economic Commission for Africa is fully committed to supporting the African Union, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and member States to ensure that the untapped potentials...

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17 Sep 18 News

Five trade and infrastructure events – from Arusha to Tianjin: The EALA has resumed its sitting in Arusha (until 6 October). Key agenda items include the East African Community...

EAC Extra-Ordinary Council on Trade, Industry and Investment dedicated to Industrialization and SMEs concludes in Arusha

17 Sep 18 News

The Extra-Ordinary Sectoral Council on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (SCTIFI) dedicated to Industrialization and Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) concluded at the EAC Head...

BRICS Ministers undertake to support SMMEs

17 Sep 18 News

BRICS Communications and ICT Ministers have identified Small, Micro, Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) as potential engines for growth and job creation and agreed to help promote the...

2018 PIDA Week: Realising Africa’s integration through smart infrastructure and good governance

12 Sep 18 News

PIDA Week 2018 is set to take place from 29 October to 2 November in Victoria Falls, hosted by the Government of Zimbabwe under the auspices of the Common Market for Eastern a...

SA to participate in G20 trade ministers’ meeting

11 Sep 18 News

Changes brought on by the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the rise of inclusive global value chains will be at the centre of the G20 Trade Ministers’ Meeting, that gets underway...