Tag: Industrial policy

tralac hosted a “Geek Week” at the tralac offices in Stellenbosch from Monday, November 7 to Friday, November 11, 2016 at noon, coordinated by Ron Sandrey with support fro...

Africa’s “Growth Miracle” in the 21st century has reversed a long standing narrative of pessimism about the region It has emboldened hope for the future. GDP ...

tralac organised a “Geek Week” from Monday, October 31 to Wednesday, November 2, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. The three day workshop was held at the request of the Kenya A...

tralac hosted a roundtable in Cape Town to consider Africa’s quest for industrial development and diversification, and the implications for the continent’s integration agenda. ...

Namibia’s Minister of Industrialization, Trade and Small Medium Enterprise Development, Immanuel Ngatjizeko tabled the Namibia Industrial Development Agency Bill in the National ...

The 19th COMESA Heads of State and Governments Summit has come to close with leaders attending the Summit issuing a Communiqué on a raft of decisions to advance the COME...

Ashly Hope, tralac Research Advisor, comments on the importance of investment in financial sector development for successful industrialisation in the 21st century Industrialisatio...

John Stuart, tralac Associate, discusses Africa’s recent industrialization path by examining trends in industrial employment and manufacturing value added in relation to oth...

Kenya plans to relax rules for the production of industrial sugar in a bid to save the economy $90 million worth of forex spent annually on imports. Kenya wil...

Structural transformation for inclusive and sustained growth Getting the world economy back on track requires that global leaders use bolder macroeconomic policies, strengthened r...

On 24 August 2016, during the inaugural SADC Industrialisation Week, held in Swaziland, over 200 private sector representatives from across the region gathered for the Second Annua...

In the run-up to the 11th G20 Summit taking place in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, on 4 and 5 September, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) published a new...

Southern African leaders will hold an Extra-Ordinary Summit during the first quarter of 2017 to finalise a costed action plan for the region’s industrialisation agenda. The Coun...

Japanese and African leaders on Sunday pledged to fight terrorism and emphasized the importance of rules-based maritime order as they wrapped up a Japan-led international conferenc...

Southern African leaders are expected to discuss measures to mobilise resources for developing energy infrastructure as a key enabler for the region’s industrialisation thrust as...

Experts call for bold and creative policies At no point in recent history have calls for Africa to industrialize been stronger than they have been lately. Across the continent, in...

While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivi...

Southern Africa is considering a series of bold measures to advance the aspirations of member states as outlined in the Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap as the region moves t...

A road Map for scaling up Africa’s economic transformation Africa’s industrialization agenda, one of the Bank Group’s top priorities for the continent’s economic transform...

The First Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Industrial Summit, which aims to accelerate industrialization and private sector development in West Africa, has taken ...