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On behalf of USTR, I would like to welcome our distinguished guests and friends participating in today’s hearing on policy recommendations for deepening the U.S.-Africa trade and...

India and Africa share close political and cultural linkages forged by a long history of trade relations and colonialism. In recent years, India and Africa have cooperated closely ...

The WTO has released new statistical profiles on global value chains (GVCs) for 61 economies. These profiles, available on the WTO website, bring together a set of indicators ...

The start of 2016 has seen a tumultuous start for the global financial system. Oil prices have descended below $30 a barrel and economic developments in China have brought episodes...

As part of continuing efforts to boost transparency by multinational enterprises (MNEs), 31 countries* signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) for the automati...

The selection: Thursday, 28 January 2016 Featured infographic, @Enugu62: 29 million already hungry, worse to come. Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers. New, from tralac: J...

More than 500 global investors gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York today to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to move the world onto the path of clean energy...

The 10th General Assembly of the Union of African Shippers’ Council (UASC) has begun in Accra on Wednesday with a call on member countries to lead the role in articulating the be...

Considerable economic success in Rwanda and the larger bloc of the East African Community (EAC) is attractive for American investors and the US government is focused on supporting ...

Small Middle-Income Countries Conference – Gaborone, Botswana, 29 January 2016 In recent years, small middle-income countries (SMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa have enjoyed stronger...

Promoting the entreprenant status to support the formalization of micro and small enterprises in the OHADA region The Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa ...

In early October, President Jim Kim of the World Bank rejected “trickle-down” economics and called out the injustice of economic growth being captured by the few. Lat...

The selection: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 Today, in Addis: press briefings by Dr Anthony Mothae Maruping (Commissioner for Economic Affairs) and Mrs Fatima Haram Acyl (Commissione...

Small economies face both challenges and opportunities when trying to integrate into global value chains (GVCs). By specialising in specific tasks or stages within a value chain, s...

Following the historic international deal agreed at the UN climate conference, COP21, and the news from Davos that climate change is the world’s most impactful risk[1], major com...

2015 index of perceived corruption, which ranked Somalia as the worst offender, says more than 6 billion people live in countries where corruption is rife More than 6 billion peop...

Further economic slowdown in major emerging economies could push commodity markets lower The World Bank is lowering its 2016 forecast for crude oil prices to $37 per barrel in its...

ILO Director-General warns of risks to the middle class growth experienced in BRICS countries. The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, has ...

The World Economic Forum brings together world leaders, corporate titans and other headline invitees for its annual blue chip meeting. So why are issues of corruption, tr...

On Monday, 25 January 2016, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker addressed U.S. and African business leaders at an event hosted by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and the United B...