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The 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...

Health 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 ...

FAO 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...

The 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...

SA 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...

A 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 ...

On 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...

In its fourth issue of The Investment Promotion Agency Observer, UNCTAD examines to what extent outward investment agencies are facilitating foreign direct investment into the...

The 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...

The 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...

The 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...

The 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...

Introduction 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...

The 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...

Sub-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...

The 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...

Low-income developing countries have seen weakened external conditions over the past eighteen months, but the net impact has varied significantly across these countries, according ...

Trade 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...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) gives high priority to the provision of high quality technical guidance to its Regional Member Countries (RMCs) to strengthen capacity for...

Côte d’Ivoire is wrapping up a very good year. Peaceful presidential elections have just been held. The country’s growth rate is among the highest in Africa. It even won the A...