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Various city representatives gathered for a special breakout session during the recent Understanding Risk & Finance Conference to discuss resilience, the challenges and opportu...

The selection: Thursday, 21 January 2016 Starting today, in Addis: 31st Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (AU) The PRC will prepare the agenda of the AU...

That the first decade of the 2000s was Africa’s most economically successful period since the beginning of official statistics has been amply voiced. Between 2000 and 2010, sub-S...

Many policy makers and corporate chieftains flocking to a village in the Swiss Alps now say that the rosy notion of a world powered by emerging-market growth needs to be reconsider...

Speaking at the Global Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the world’s business community to play its ful...

Global flows of foreign direct investment jumped 36 per cent in 2015 to an estimated $1.7 trillion, their highest level since the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009,...

Mali has ratified the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), becoming the 10th African nation to do so. Mali has also accepted an amendment to the TRIPS Agreement aimed at facilit...

Delinking the Namibia dollar from the South African rand is easier said than done and entails numerous considerations, Namene Kalili, senior manager research and development at FNB...

The selection: Wednesday, 20 January 2016 Profiled tweets, by Kenya’s @AMB_A_Mohammed: By hosting TICADVI, Kenya’s credentials as champion of devt in Africa and leader in inte...

Future economic ties between South Africa and China will be based on even more in-depth co-operation, according to Gu Hailiang, deputy chair of the State Committee of Social Scienc...

The recently concluded Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) provides an ideal opportunity to narrow the scope of aid-for-trade (AfT) activities to heed the call for “Managing for D...

Africa needs a new deal on energy, and now it has one. US President Roosevelt’s post-Depression New Deal of the 1930s focused on ‘Relief, Recovery and Reform’. For Afri...

In his speech at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica on 18 January, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said WTO members should build on the historic success of the rece...

The pickup in global growth is weak and uneven across economies, with risks now tilted toward the emerging markets, says the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update. Ad...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D ...

Despite falling unemployment levels in some developed economies, new analysis shows the global job crisis is not likely to end, especially in emerging economies. Continuing high r...

A queen, a crown princess, a president, a prime minister, a Chinese e-commerce pioneer, and a player often ranked as the world’s best footballer are among eminent Advocates appoi...

The Future of Electricity 2016 report from the World Economic Forum analyses best practices in improving the investment attractiveness across developing count...

The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010, a drop of 41 pe...

The selection: Tuesday, 19 January 2016 AfDB launches 'High-Fives' application (AfDB) The High-Fives application is designed to give periodic information about the performance of...