Tag: Investment policy

Strengthening economic cooperation among developing and developed countries will be examined during UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board meetings. The impact regional integratio...

TICAD Ministerial Meeting in Maputo: selected highlights, reviews Remarks by Mr Taro Kono (Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan): (i) Opening Session (pdf): In this context, Jap...

Starting today, in Maputo: Mozambique hosts Tokyo International Conference on African development The meeting, which is taking place for the first time in Mozambique, has already ...

The 7th meeting of BRICS Trade Ministers under the Chinese presidency was held in Shanghai on 1-2 August 2017. The Ministers reviewed the progress made in BRICS economic, trad...

The seventh meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Trade was held in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, on the 1-2 August 2017. The establishment of the BRICS e-port network, e-co...

The present report summarises information on trends in international public and private capital flows to developing countries, options to address financial stress in developing cou...

Today’s trade and integration event pointers: The political and socio-economic integration of the African continent: the role of the Pan-African Parliament (22-25 August, Ca...

The last 15 years have seen fast economic growth in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, there is a need to translate these factors into sustained poverty reduction through greate...

The Sixty-Fourth Session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board will be held from 11 to 22 September 2017 in Geneva. A high-level dialogue will provide an opportunity to as...

In Addis, today: Ms Vera Songwe assumes office as the new UNECA Executive Secretary From the tralac e-Newsletter: Call for papers for the Monitoring Regional Integration in S...

Issues related to trade and investment promotion were discussed at the 7th meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Trade in China. “The Trade Ministers established collaborative mecha...

A ground-breaking new report by the G20’s Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) outlines infrastructure investment needs globally and individually for 50 countries and seven sectors...

Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, jetted into Nairobi Wednesday evening, starting a packed two-day visit that peaks with a public ...

The latest Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa results show that policy and institutional quality weakened in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2016 amid a difficult glob...

East African Community legal notice: assorted Customs Union notices, related decisions (pdf, 30 June) East African Business Council: Annual Report 2016/2017 During the past year,...

On June 28, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the first review of Madagascar’s economic performance under a program supported by an Ext...

One of the keys to economic transformation across Africa today is a greater role for employment-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing. After taking due account of differences i...

Today, in Dar es Salaam: Development cooperation between China and Tanzania: trade and investment (ESRF, China Agricultural University). Twitter updates: #TanzaniaChinaConf Starti...

On July 12, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2017 Article IV consultation with Rwanda and completed the seventh review of Rwand...

Talkmore Chidede, tralac Researcher, comments on the status of the recent Amendments to Annex 1 (Cooperation on Investment) of the SADC Finance and Investment Protocol A...