Tag: Industrial policy

The 37th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit ended in Tshwane on Sunday with a commitment to use the region’s natural resources to drive projects that will have ...

tralac’s weekly e-Newsletter: Are African trade arrangements rediscovering trade remedies? UNCTAD’s expert meeting on trade, services and development (18-20 July, Geneva): exp...

Concluding today, in Kampala: ATAF, URA, AfDB high-level dialogue on the nexus between tax policy and tax administration Concept note (pdf): Much of the traditional tax regime for...

Between 30 July and 4 August 2017, delegates from the media; private sector; civil society and public sector from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States me...

NEPAD’s integration into AU structures and processes: AU issues consultancy request Dr Francis Mangeni: Customized trade remedies in Africa – the case of the COMESA-EAC-SADC T...

International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane and SADC executive secretary Stergomena Lawrence Tax have cautioned that the Southern African Development Co...

The 37th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government to be held in Pretoria, South Africa will deliberate on a wide range of issues including exploring ways of harnessing the...

As part of the implementation of the SADC Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap 2015-2063 the SADC Secretariat says it is working towards increasing intra-SADC regional ...

Updates on African air traffic, cargo (IATA) African airlines’ traffic soared 9.9% in June. Capacity rose 7.1%, and load factor jumped 1.7 percentage points to 64.3%, although ...

Kenya is an import economy – imports just about everything from garlic and oranges to construction material and heavy industrial machinery. The general view, which I largely acc...

Concluding today, in Gaborone: 2017 African Caucus Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF, and delegates from countries on the African continent met here in Gaborone on Thu...

Localisation in infrastructure development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region is critical to industrialisation. This was said by the Chief Director of Afr...

Today, many developing countries seek to emulate the industrialisation path followed by the industrialised nations of the world (the economies of Western Europe, the USA and Japan)...

The Continental Free Trade Area in Africa: a human rights perspective (pdf) This human rights impact assessment, like others, advocates for the prioritization of concerns of all m...

International trade never used to be an issue, at least, not one borne out of apathy or misrepresentation. Ancient civilisations seldom traded with outsiders, but rarely because th...

Concluding today, in Addis: AU Specialized Technical Committee on Transport, Trans-Regional and Interregional Infrastructure, Energy and Tourism Next week, in Shanghai: BRICS trad...

The rising wages in Asia, the rebalancing underway in China, and the strong growth in Africa provide a window of opportunity for Kenya to expand its capabilities and global presenc...

AU members should honour financial contributions: Namibia’s PM (New Era) Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has called on all member states of the AU to honour their asse...

The East African Community (EAC) Secretariat has prepared the 1st regional Industrial Competitiveness Report 2017, which will be released to the public in October 2017. The inaugu...

Francis Mangeni: Industrialization in Africa Good practice would suggest that acquisition and deployment of technology, building a sound technological base, harnessing innovations...