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The African Development Bank has launched the report, “Transition towards Green Growth in Mozambique: Policy review and recommendations for action,” which summarizes the develo...

Ministerial Communiqué We, the Ministers of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), having met on 16th December 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya, during the 10h Ministerial Conference of ...

Concluding its work for the main part of the General Assembly’s seventieth session on 14 December 2015, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) unanimously approved 18 ...

The 2016 edition of International Debt Statistics was published on 16 December 2015, and provides comprehensive data on the debt of low- and middle-income countries, and quart...

President Kenyatta welcomed the formal approval by ministers of Liberia’s WTO membership terms at a special ceremony on 16 December held at the WTO’s Tenth Ministerial Conferen...

The selection: Wednesday, 16 December MC10 updates: WTO's 'Latest News' feature, Bridges Daily Update 2 Experts ponder CFTA's human rights impacts (UNECA) A side-event titled 'A...

WTO members were urged at the opening session of the WTO’s Tenth Ministerial Conference in Nairobi on 15 December to crown a successful year of multilateral diplomacy by deliveri...

Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) face multiple trade and development challenges. In addition to their geographical predicaments and remoteness from international markets, mo...

Citing remarkable achievement of the information and communication technologies (ICT) for development, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that t...

Trade ministers continued to disagree over the future of the WTO’s negotiating function, as talks for the organisation’s Tenth Ministerial Conference (MC10) kicked off in Nairo...

Despite a sharp decline in private investment in energy, transport, and water infrastructure in developing countries in the first six months of 2015, investment in renewable energy...

We, the Ministers and Heads of Delegation of the Group of Small, Vulnerable Economies (SVEs), having met on 15th December 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya, on the margins of the Tenth Sessio...

The selection: Tuesday, 15 December Trudi Hartzenberg: Africa free-trade bloc implementation date may be too optimistic (Bloomberg) A 2017 implementation date set for creating a ...

A 2017 implementation date set for creating a free-trade zone in Africa, a region with a combined economy worth more than $2 trillion, may be too optimistic, according to trade exp...

LDC Trade Ministers’ Meeting: Nairobi, Kenya, 14 December 2015 – Ministerial Declaration We, the Ministers of the Least Developed Countries, Meeting in Nairobi on Decemb...

Trade ministers are arriving in Nairobi, Kenya to begin their latest biennial conference, set to be held from 15-18 December. Whether the WTO meet will indeed be able to yield subs...

This week, trade ministers will gather together in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi for the WTO’s Tenth Ministerial Conference, marking the first time that the global trade bod...

The African Consultations on Migration kicked-off on Monday, 14 December 2015. The Consultations were officially opened by Dr. Olawale I. Maiyegun, the Director of Social...

Reducing inequalities and the creation of work are critical for human development in the region, says the 2015 Human Development Report. Significant gains have been made in human ...

Global partnership will focus on sustainable trade The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on 14 December 2015 launched the Environment and Trade Hub, an initiative which ...