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Pooling of strengths vital for integration – Hon Kandie
24 Jan 2014The Chair of the Council of Ministers, Hon Phyllis C. Kandie, has reiterated the need to collectively pool strengths together if the Community is to remain relevant in the fiercely...
read moreBali Package – Trade Multilateralism in the 21st Century
24 Jan 2014In this column, Roberto Azevêdo, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), writes about the Bali Package of agreements reached in early December 2013.
At the Ninth ...
read moreAfrica’s billions that the poor won’t touch
24 Jan 2014With its two-trillion-dollar economy, recent discoveries of billions of dollars worth of minerals and oil, and the number of investment opportunities it has to offer global players...
read moreBrics economies not crashing: Economist
23 Jan 2014The Brics economies are not going to crash but are facing another difficult year, Standard Bank economist Jeremy Stevens said on Wednesday.
“The Brics had a challenging 2013 and...
read morePrivate sector too slow at exploiting regional opportunities
23 Jan 2014The private sector are shying away from the business opportunities in the East African Community (EAC).
The commissioner for economic affairs in the Ministry for East African Comm...
read moreEnabling business environment key to sustainable and inclusive growth
23 Jan 2014Africa needs to create an enabling environment for domestic and foreign investment to realize its potential and ensure sustainable and inclusive growth for its population, panellis...
read moreSupply chain reforms: the right path to increased global trade
22 Jan 2014Urgent implementation of the Bali trade accords and deeper behind-the-border reform is needed to sustainably meet world food demand, and foster industrial development, according to...
read moreSEC must stay with its mission – Protecting US investors
22 Jan 2014Swimming against the tide of expert and public opinion, the American Petroleum Institute (API) certainly has clever lawyers.
Somehow this lobby group, which represents the US oil ...
read moreCan African skies remain closed?
22 Jan 2014When thinking about regional integration in Africa, we often think first of trade policy, telecommunications, Information & Communications Technology (ICT) and road infrastruct...
read moreBest to postpone S. Sudan EAC bid
21 Jan 2014This month an East African Community (EAC) negotiating team was supposed to be in Juba to verify with various senior officials South Sudan’s application to join the economic bloc...
read moreAverting economic cold war
21 Jan 2014When the first G20 summit was held at the end of 2008 in Washington DC, many believed that the time had finally come for developed and developing countries to work together to reco...
read more2500 leaders to participate in WEF Davos meet
21 Jan 2014A group of more than 2500 politicians, business leaders and academics are gathering to discuss the state of global economy for five days, beginning tomorrow at the World Economic F...
read moreCustoms Union promises boost to regional trade
20 Jan 2014The customs union, which is the first pillar of East African economic integration, is set to become operational this year in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya, a landmark in achieving full ...
read moreAzevêdo hails Basel Committee’s decision on trade finance as “good news” for developing countries
20 Jan 2014Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, on 17 January 2014, welcomed a recent decision by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision as “of particular significance for the availabilit...
read moreMassive SADC Gateway port
17 Jan 2014NamPort has recently begun with a massive N$3 billion construction project to build a new container terminal, but plans even more extravagant expansion in the years to come, accord...
read moreTTIP puts the EU’s environmental and social policies on the line
17 Jan 2014The European Commission has repeatedly promised civil society that the TTIP negotiations with the US will not lead to a race to the bottom on environmental protection, health and s...
read moreInformal sector key to growth
17 Jan 2014Zimbabwe has to face the reality that the informal sector is now the dominant force of the economy, Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. Giving the...
read moreEthiopia stumbles on WTO accession
16 Jan 2014Ethiopia will not be ready to open up financial and other essential sectors to gain World Trade Organization (WTO) accession until 2015, according to the Ministry of Trade.
This i...
read moreThe MINTs are very different and might not all see stellar growth
16 Jan 2014In rapidly developing countries, often the proceeds of economic growth fail to flow adequately to shareholders – particularly foreign ones.
Another acronym has recently sprung u...
read moreDiluting foreign investors’ protection makes no sense
16 Jan 2014The Department of Trade and Industry has had a veritable bee in its bonnet about the 46 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) that the Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki administrations...
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