Tag: Informal economy
Trading under the COMESA Simplified Trading Regime: Review of Zimbabwe-Zambia-Malawi
09 Jan 24 PublicationsThe informal economy plays a crucial role in Africa’s development, particularly without formal economic opportunities. It contributes to income generation, job creation, structur...
Women Cross-Border Traders and Food Security in Southern Africa: Role of Simplified Trade Regimes – case of Malawi and Zambia
12 Dec 23 BlogA growing food security crisis is looming globally. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious...
Supporting women cross-border traders
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Over the past few years, matters on gender equality, gender biases and gender mainstreaming in trade policy have become more prominent in public debates with increas...
Small-scale Trade and the Simplified Trade Regime
22 Dec 22 BlogMicro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) play a central role in the economic development of many countries. They are a major source of entrepreneurial skills, innovation, ...
Challenges women traders face at border posts and what can be done to address these challenges
25 Jul 22 BlogSurveys indicate that about 70-80 percent of informal traders are women. Women traders face gender based barriers at borders affecting potential for inclusive growth. It has also b...
How can the AfCFTA assist Small Scale Traders?
28 Jul 21 BlogWhen thinking about international trade, pictures of cargo ships carrying multi-coloured crates or large haulage trucks cruising along an empty highway are usually evoked. While th...
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05 Nov 20 NewsNational
WWF launches plastics report, encourages deeper collaboration to end pollution (Engineering News)
All actors in the plastics value chain have a role to play in dealing w...
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23 Oct 20 NewsNational
Tax hikes and changes proposed for South Africa – including digital products and services (BusinessTech)
South Africa is facing a significant shortfall in revenue coll...
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27 May 20 NewsThe inaugural virtual meeting of the Kenya-US Free Trade Agreement Negotiations Secretariat took place today, Kenya’s CS Trade and Industry Betty Maina has announced.
Ghana’s ...
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25 May 20 NewsTrudi Hartzenberg: Some reflections on Africa Day 2020, COVID-19 and the AfCFTA
We will all remember Africa Day 2020. Africa Day, which we have been celebrating on 25 May each yea...
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08 May 20 NewsECA leads discussion on Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown exit strategies (ECA)
African countries are turning their attention to lockdown exit plans as they seek to limit economic and ...
Hitting Where it Hurts – Pandemic Border Closures and SSA’s Most Vulnerable Informal Cross-Border Traders
07 Apr 20 BlogA related tralac blog, in the same series as this one, discusses the phenomenon of informal cross-border trade (ICBT) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the context of the current Covi...
Informal Cross Border Trade in Africa in a Time of Pandemic
07 Apr 20 BlogInformal cross-border trade (ICBT) forms a significant part of intra Sub-Saharan African (SSA) trade. It contributes income, provides jobs and empowers women in some of the most fr...
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23 Jul 19 NewsDiarise: The 7th Annual East Africa International Arbitration Conference 2019 takes place on 29-30 August in Nairobi
Featured African trade policy tweets:
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22 Jul 19 NewsAfCFTA ratification update, from @ch_nji: “It’s done, Cameroon has ratified the AfCFTA today, 19 July 2019. Instrument of ratification to be deposited with the depository in th...
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12 Apr 19 NewsJoint AfDB, AUC, UNECA, Afreximbank expert group meeting on informal cross-border trade (16-17 April, Abidjan)
Informal cross-border trade has remained a dilemma for the African c...
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11 Feb 19 News32nd Ordinary Session of the African Union: opening address by President Kagame
The future of the global economy is digital. At this Summit, we will consider guidelines for a comm...
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18 Oct 18 NewsA new tralac Trade Brief: Intra-African trade – focusing on trade within Regional Economic Communities
This paper gives an overview of the trade within the eight RECs recognised...
The World Bank’s Africa Region Gender Action Plan FY18-22
20 Sep 18 NewsThis Regional Gender Action Plan (RGAP) presents the broad approach that the Africa Region of the WBG will take to address gender inequality FY18-22.
The RGAP is not intended to ...
A push for the formalization of women cross-border trade in West Africa
20 Sep 18 NewsThe Nigeria chapter of the New Faces New Voices (NFNV), an initiative of the Graca Machel Trust, in partnership with the United Parcel Service, the US-headquartered global logistic...