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The selection: Wednesday, 2 December COMESA’s Policy Organs meetings begin The 35th COMESA Policy organs meetings have begun in Lusaka and will run until 8 December 2015. The C...

Climate is, in economic terms, an externality. The pursuit of conventional economic growth, particularly through production and energy processes, can cause incremental changes to t...

At a gathering of African leaders at the United Nations climate change conference (COP21), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that their continent has an enormous ...

Since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) more than 20 years ago, small and vulnerable economies (SVEs)* have sought to gain special recognition and treatment w...

Inclusive and sustainable industrial development lies at the core of UNIDO’s mandate, it is one of the main drivers for sustainable development and will be crucial for achieving ...

The $50 billion New Development Bank (NDB) – or Brics bank – should issue its first loans by April next year, said its first president, Kundapur Kamath. One loan would be issu...

Huge trade corridors crisscrossing Africa could cause “irrevocable” environmental damage without realising many of their supposed development benefits, say researcher...

What are the links between trade and climate change? How has the relationship between these two policy areas changed over the years? Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Clim...

Introduction of the Director-General’s report entitled “Towards inclusive and sustainable growth in Africa through Decent Work”, presented by Mr Aeneas C. Chuma, ILO Assistan...

The fourth Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Forum that ended on 1 December 2015 in Vienna focused on ways the United Nations Industrial Development Organi...

“Innovative financing to meet Africa’s growing infrastructure demand” was the topic discussed during a plenary session on Day 2 of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Transpo...

The selection: Tuesday, 1 December Selected trade and development conference updates: In Dakar: Building Africa’s negotiating capacity for improved terms of engagement with the...

The following reports were prepared as part of a regional assessment of the manufacturing sector in Eastern Africa commissioned by the East Africa Resource Center (EARC) of the Afr...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for October 2015 that recorded a trade deficit of R21.39 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswa...

The heads of the world’s largest development banks on 30 November 2015 pledged to work together to substantially increase climate investments and ensure that development programs...

New financing for Least Developed Countries Fund sends strong signal of commitment as Paris talks get underway Eleven donors have pledged close to $250 USD million in new money fo...

On the opening day of the United Nations climate change conference (COP21), dozens of announcements were made in Paris by Governments and leaders of the public and private sectors,...

A new report from Global law firm Baker & McKenzie in collaboration with the Economist Corporate Network, Spanning Africa’s Infrastructure Gap: How development capital is tra...

Operationalizing inclusive and sustainable industrial development in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) as a path to graduation out of the LDC category was the focus of a Ministe...

ITU’s flagship annual Measuring the Information Society Report, released on 30 November 2015, reveals that 3.2 billion people are now online, representing 43.4% of the global pop...