Tag: Least Developed Countries
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25 Oct 21 NewsNational
the dtic Supports SA Pharmaceutical Companies to Exhibit at Africa Health 2021 (The Department of Trade Industry and Competition)
The Department of Trade, Industry ...
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10 Jun 21 NewsNational
SA making efforts to improve ease of doing business (SAnews)
South African cities are making efforts to improve the ease of doing business, although the pace of reforms ...
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04 Jun 21 NewsNational
Working together to address SA challenges (SAnews)
The knowledge economy provides South Africa with an opportunity to overcome structural barriers to economic transforma...
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05 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Avian epidemic plunging poultry industry into turmoil (CAJ News)
Stakeholders are divided over South Africa’s prospects of containing the ...
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28 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Avian flu: Poultry industry hustling to save exports (Food For Mzansi)
South Africa’s poultry industry is currently working hard to safegu...
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13 Nov 20 NewsNational
Ramaphosa on trade, corruption, and the plan to reduce the gap between black and white South Africans (BusinessTech)
President Cyril Ramaphosa has responded on a number ...
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09 Sep 20 NewsNational news
South Africa’s GDP tanks 51% in the second quarter (BusinessTech)
South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) dropped by a massive 51% in the second quarter of ...
Nations to meet in Barbados to chart new path for post-coronavirus economic recovery
05 Aug 20 NewsUNCTAD15, the UN trade and development body's fifteenth quadriennial conference, will take place under the theme “From inequality and vulnerability to prosperity for all” as th...
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23 Jun 20 NewsLaunched today by the ECA, in collaboration with the MTN Group: The Africa Communication and Information Platform. The Platform will furnish national and regional COVID task forces...
Tackling COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
12 Jun 20 NewsThe pandemic-induced crisis will have severe impacts on household incomes and industries in the region and requires swift policy actions.
The COVID-19 infection rates i...
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05 Jun 20 NewsBuhari nominates Okonjo-Iweala as Nigeria’s candidate for WTO’s DG election (Premium Times)
Nigeria has nominated a former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as its can...
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11 May 20 NewsTrade impacts of LDC graduation (WTO)
There are currently 47 LDCs, of which 12 are at different stages of the graduation process. Of these LDCs, seven are WTO members (Angola, Ban...
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06 Mar 20 News5th anniversary of the Nairobi Ministerial Decision: Review of implementation, identification of gaps and the way forward. The following submission (dated 2 March) is being circula...
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11 Dec 19 NewsGender-sensitive policy recommendations to support women cross-border traders in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia (UNCTAD)
Recommendations on Enabling Business Environment and Forma...
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18 Nov 19 NewsUnderway in Addis Ababa:
(i) SheTrades Global 2019 (held in conjunction with the World Export Development Forum). Discussions will engage with women entrepreneurs from 40 bu...
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25 Oct 19 NewsEXIM 2019 Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee convenes interagency meeting to advance President Trump’s Prosper Africa Initiative (Exim Bank, US)
The 2019 Sub-Saharan Africa A...
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16 Oct 19 NewsAfrican trade policy events to diarise:
The first meeting of the AfCFTA Council of Ministers responsible for trade takes place next week in Addis Ababa (24-25 October). It wil...
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14 Oct 19 NewsUnderway in Geneva: UNCTAD’s NTMs Week
Sessions will cover topics such as the costs and benefits associated with NTMs from a sustainable development perspective, trade tensions ...
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02 Jul 19 NewsUnderway, in Niamey: 9th Session of African Ministers of Trade in preparation for the Extra-Ordinary Summit scheduled for 7 July. The summit will also be preceded by the Civil Soci...
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26 Jun 19 NewsThe role of rules of origin in boosting intra-African trade: a CNBC interview with Junior Davis, chief of UNCTAD’s Africa Section
AfDB voting powers, as at 31 May 2019.
Key reg...