Tag: Industrial policy

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D ...

The 35th meeting of the COMESA Intergovernmental Committee opened in Lusaka on 3 December 2015 with a call on Member States to address bottlenecks that are hindering intra-regional...

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) launched its flagship publication, the Industrial Development Report (IDR) 2016, during the Organization’s General ...

Inclusive and sustainable industrial development lies at the core of UNIDO’s mandate, it is one of the main drivers for sustainable development and will be crucial for achieving ...

Marking the Africa Industrialization Day, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is calling for job creation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for women and youth to era...

This Friday, November 20 marks yet another “Africa Industrialization Day” by the United Nations. There have now been 25 such events, and they seem to have come and gone with re...

Regional Cooperation Committee meeting to discuss improvements to Africa’s productive integration and Continental Free Trade Area Despite growth during the past decade and relat...

The TICAD VI High-Level pre-event was held on the margins of the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA, on 28 September 2015. The objective was to discuss Afri...

Participants at a high-level event held today at the United Nations headquarters in New York, voiced strong support for the industrialization of Africa as a way forward to implemen...

Kenya has unveiled its first-ever blueprint to revive its manufacturing and industrial exports sector.  The decade-long plan, aptly christened Kenya’s Industrial Transforma...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, discusses the ongoing “trade wars” amongst East African Community (EAC) member states Industrial development has attained renewed focus...

This publication, prepared by SARDC for the 35th SADC Summit in Botswana on 17-18 August 2015, provides a public record of SADC activities and achievements in the past year, includ...

The SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap, 2015-2063, was approved by the Extra-Ordinary Summit in Harare, Zimbabwe, in April 2015. The Strategy is premised on the convi...

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says government has embarked on a mission to take the country’s industrialisation to the next level by ensuring that the Industr...

Recently, industrial capacity cooperation has become a catchword in China-Africa cooperation. Many African countries are eager to embrace the historic opportunity brought about by ...

Labor-intensive, light manufacturing industries led the economic transformation of some of the most successful developing countries in the world, including China and Vietnam. In Su...

Multi-stakeholder partnerships for mobilizing financing for industrial infrastructure and industrial projects, ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to international larg...

The Investing in Africa Forum: Partnering to Accelerate Investment, Industrializa-tion, and Results was held June 30-July 1, 2015, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, co-organized by the Gov...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, discusses the revision of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) The Regional Indicative Strategic Developmen...

Media statement by Minister of Trade and Industry Dr Rob Davies at launch of the Industrial Policy Action Plan 2015/16 – 2017/18 at the Industrial Development Corporation Auditor...