Tag: Investment policy

tralac's Daily News Selection

tralac's Daily News Selection

19 Sep 19  News
PwC's The Africa Business Agenda 2019: Kenya is top destination for companies seeking expansion in Africa The study by global audit firm PwC, conducted among chief executives arou...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

11 Sep 19  News
African Leapfrog Index: Getting Lions to Leapfrog With financial support from the Mastercard Impact Fund, the African Leapfrog Index – which was launched during the World Econom...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

29 Aug 19  News
Madagascar has notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it has initiated three safeguard investigations: on soaps, lubricating oils and on vegetable oils and margarines T...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

28 Aug 19  News
The Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development began today in Yokohama on the theme Advancing Africa’s development through people, technology and innovation. T...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

26 Jul 19  News
Is the AfCFTA practical?: a CNBC interview with Rudi Steinbach (World Bank Africa specialist) Regional growth spillovers in Sub-Saharan Africa (IMF) This paper attempts to shed l...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

25 Jul 19  News
The future of work in Africa: Harnessing the potential of digital technologies for all (World Bank) This companion report to the World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

11 Jul 19  News
Next week in Nairobi: “It’s all systems go as Kenya readies to host Africa’s leading premier SME gathering, the Kenya Trade Week and COMESA High Level Business Summit, 15-21 ...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

10 Jul 19  News
Underway, in New York: High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Niamey Summit wrap, reactions Multi-video: Africa punches below its weight when it comes to inter...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

13 Jun 19  News
Today is Budget Day across East Africa. Selected country previews: Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania African trade policy events to diarise: 25th African Organisation for Standard...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

27 May 19  News
T20 communique for G20 Leaders:  extracts from recommendations from Task Force 5 on Cooperation with Africa (pdf) Agree on a unified approach towards macroeconomic stability ...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

24 May 19  News
Diarise: Investment to support competitiveness and inclusive growth in South Africa (27 May, Johannesburg). One of the speakers at this Tutwa CG seminar will be David Bridgman (out...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

20 May 19  News
tralac's April newsletter was published earlier today:  it contains a wide variety of AfCFTA-relevant commentaries and resources A select listing of African trade events: (...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

26 Apr 19  News
Zimbabwe shoots down Masiyiwa’s rand proposal (Bulawayo24) Industry and Commerce minister, Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu has shot down the suggestion by billionaire telecoms tycoo...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

10 Apr 19  News
Concluding today, in Windhoek: UNCTAD regional capacity building training workshop on the use of statistics and the Productive Capacities Index to inform evidence-based policy-maki...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

09 Apr 19  News
Featured tweet, @EgyptAbaba: Few minutes ago, I officially deposited Egypt AfCFTA ratification instrument. Egypt is 18th depositor of the free trade area and four more to go to ent...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

01 Apr 19  News
A suite of REC-related policy updates: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa An extra-ordinary meeting of the COMESA Council of Ministers will be held on Friday, in L...
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