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Can Kenya’s security keep up with trade?
06 Jan 2016As economic stakes are raised, terrorism and nonproliferation require political focus and follow-through. Fortunately there are signs that promote hope for the future, and Ken...
read moreAddis Ababa, Ethiopia: Enhancing urban resilience
06 Jan 2016The World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) conducted a CityStrength Diagnostic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February 2015 at the request of ...
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05 Jan 2016The selection: Tuesday, 5 January 2016
The Brookings Africa Growth Initiative’s Foresight Africa 2016: review
Sub-Saharan Africa will fall behind for many reasons. First, the p...
read moreSouth Africa may lose U.S. trade benefit after target missed
05 Jan 2016Health authorities to meet to resolve outstanding issues; U.S. may exclude South African farming goods from AGOA benefit
South Africa said it missed a Dec. 31 deadline set by the ...
read moreEl Niño lowers early production outlook in Southern Africa
05 Jan 2016FAO actions aim to minimize impact on agriculture
Crop and livestock production prospects in Southern Africa have been weakened by the El Niño weather phenomenon that has lowered...
read moreThe Brookings Africa Growth Initiative’s Foresight Africa 2016: Preview
05 Jan 2016The launch of Foresight Africa: Top priorities for the continent in 2016 is on the horizon. In anticipation of this year’s report, the Africa Growth Initiative team off...
read moreSouth Africa on outstanding AGOA issues
05 Jan 2016SA confident outstanding AGOA issues will be resolved
South African government officials have been engaged with their US counterparts during the festive season to finalise all the...
read moreNew study: Illicit financial flows hit US$1.1 trillion in 2013
05 Jan 2016A December 2015 report from Global Financial Integrity finds that developing and emerging economies lost US$7.8 trillion in illicit financial flows from 2004 through ...
read moreIMF Executive Board 2015 Article IV Consultation with Swaziland
05 Jan 2016On December 9, 2015, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Swaziland.
Swaziland’s growth has been recovering s...
read moreOutward Investment Agencies: Partners in promoting sustainable development
05 Jan 2016In its fourth issue of The Investment Promotion Agency Observer, UNCTAD examines to what extent outward investment agencies are facilitating foreign direct investment into the...
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04 Jan 2016The selection: Monday, 4 January 2016
AGOA: US set to reimpose tariffs on SA goods (Business Day)
US President Barack Obama is set to announce as early as Monday that he is suspe...
read moreSouth Africa Merchandise Trade Statistics for November 2015
04 Jan 2016The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for November 2015 that recorded a trade surplus of R1.77 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswa...
read moreThe 26th African Union Summit: Declaration of 2016 as Africa Year of Human Rights
04 Jan 2016The year 2016 marks a veritable watershed in the continental human rights trajectory: 2016 marks the 35th Anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter in 1981; 2016 marks the...
read moreReport on the Application of the African Social Development Index in select African countries
04 Jan 2016The fast and sustained economic growth in Africa over the past two decades has not yet translated into improved social outcomes in most countries. High levels of poverty and inequa...
read moreGlobal value chains and South-South trade: Economic cooperation and integration among developing countries
04 Jan 2016Introduction
The discussion on promoting South-South trade dates back to the 1940s, when the development of countries emerging from the colonial era began to gain importance as an...
read moreRwanda’s new companies: an overview of registrations, taxes, employment and exports
04 Jan 2016The Government of Rwanda has introduced a series of reforms to the domestic business environment since 2009 in a bid to reduce the administrative and financial burden of business r...
read moreDebt sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa: unraveling country-specific risks
22 Dec 2015Sub-Saharan African countries as a group showed a considerable reduction in public and external indebtedness in the early 2000s as a result of debt relief programs, higher economic...
read moretralac’s Daily News selection: 21 December 2015
21 Dec 2015The selection: Monday, 21 December
MC10 outcomes: The Nairobi Package
The Nairobi Package contains a series of six Ministerial Decisions on agriculture, cotton and issues related...
read moreSlowing global growth has varied effects on low-income countries
21 Dec 2015Low-income developing countries have seen weakened external conditions over the past eighteen months, but the net impact has varied significantly across these countries, according ...
read moreWTO Members clinch agriculture export competition deal, weigh next steps for negotiating future
21 Dec 2015Trade ministers clinched a deal to eliminate agricultural export subsidies this Saturday, following a five-day meet in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The WTO Ministerial Conference...
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