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Regional Cooperation Committee meeting to discuss improvements to Africa’s productive integration and Continental Free Trade Area Despite growth during the past decade and relat...

The leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies on 16 November 2015 endorsed overhauled global standards to crackdown on tax evasion and recognised the important contribution mad...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo briefed G20 leaders at their meeting in Antalya, Turkey, on 16 November on preparations for the WTO’s 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi nex...

Opening Speech by Anthony Mothae Maruping, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, AUC, at the Fourth Congress of African Economists being held from 16-18 November 2015 in Accra, Ghana,...

The Conference on Promoting Regional Agricultural Trade and Value Chains kicked off on Monday in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, bringing together a number of key actors involved in agr...

G20 Antalya Summit, 15-16 November 2015 Introduction 1. We, the Leaders of the G20, met in Antalya on 15-16 November 2015 to determine further collective actions towards achievin...

The Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government of Ghana for the 2016 Financial year was presented to Parliament on Friday, 13th November, 2015 by Hon. Seth E. Terkper, ...

Over the last five years, Africa has seen the highest rate of population growth at about 2.5% annually and by 2050 a quarter of the world’s population will be on the continent. ...

Accelerating infrastructure development across the continent should be a key focus of Africa’s drive toward sustainable development, delegates heard in Abidjan on Friday. More t...

The selection: Monday, 16 November Namibia: Geingob asked to intervene in livestock export battle (New Era) Stakeholders in Namibia’s N$2bn per annum livestock export industry ...

The value of world trade is falling. The 18th Global Trade Alert report shows that the manufactures that account for a large share of the fall are those where G20 nations...

A regional integration agenda has been part of Africa’s strategy for economic transformation for more than three decades, and in some cases for almost a century. African leaders...

Infrastructure Financing Trends in Africa 2014 shows that over $74bn was committed in 2014 to the development of Africa’s infrastructure, and that disbursements by ICA membe...

The BRICS group of emerging nations called on the Group of 20 (G20) top developed and developing nations on Sunday to strengthen their macroeconomic policy cooperation to prevent b...

Further integrating low-income developing countries and SMEs into global value chains will help meet the G20’s target of boosting global growth by an additional 2.1% by 2018, wri...

The Northern Corridor has registered a general decline in transport costs while the Central Corridor shows a steady but marginal increase in the past five years. According to th...

The first-ever Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week opened on Friday, November 13 in Abidjan, with the African Development Bank (AfDB) reiterating its com...

We, the Heads of Competition Authorities of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of S...

During the last two decades, the average growth of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) has been slower than the sub-Saharan African (SSA) average. Given ...

This year’s B20 summit set a new standard for participation and inclusivity across a variety of fields, says Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, Chair, B20, and President, Union of Cha...