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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has lamented over the low level of intra-regional trade within the sub-region, noting that several years after regionalism, i...

New UN report synthesizes national climate plans from 146 countries in advance of Paris An unprecedented world-wide effort is underway to combat climate change, building confidenc...

The African Union and Partners to meet in Cote D’Ivoire in November to “Accelerate Infrastructure Implementation for Africa’s Integration” The development of efficient inf...

The selection: Tuesday, 3 November Today: an AGOA briefing by South Africa's Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies The African Economic Conference 2015: the conference pa...

The WTO’s fourteenth trade monitoring report on G20 trade measures, issued on 2 November, shows the application of new trade-restrictive measures by G20 economies remained stable...

Small-scale producers in developing countries must access world markets says WTO’s Azevêdo FAO and the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed on 2 November 2015 to strengthen th...

Economic diversification key for development in the long run, says UN development agency Governments in Africa should put into place fiscal rules, sovereign wealth funds and other...

Economists aim to strike Kinshasa Consensus on ending poverty in Africa Increasing government spending on healthcare, education and support to vulnerable groups like the elderly h...

The importance of going beyond environmental considerations when planning the lifecycle of mines to include socioeconomic considerations was among the topics raised at the Intergov...

Ending corruption is vital to efforts to achieve sustainable development, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the world’s largest anti-corruption forum, w...

Major implementation milestones are being met by members of the world’s leading forum on tax transparency as the international community continues to move ahead towards greater t...

The National Treasury on 2 November 2015 published the Draft Carbon Tax Bill for public comment, following on the announcement made by the Minister of Finance in the 2015 Budget. C...

The selection: Monday, 2 November This week’s selected African trade and development events: SACU Trade Policy Review The African Ministerial Conference 2015: 'intellectual p...

Delegates from across the continent and around the globe are converging in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, where the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Eco...

He was positive about the organisation’s mid-financial year performance, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) chief executive Karl Socikwa said, outlining in detail ways in which TPT co...

The African Ministerial Conference 2015: Intellectual Property for an Emerging Africa co-organized by the Government of Senegal and WIPO in cooperation with the African Union ...

Botswana’s leading role in ratifying the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) will reduce costs associated with trading of its goods and services...

Ahead of the 3rd Africa Global Business Forum (AGBF) which will take place on 17 and 18 November in Dubai, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has developed a res...

Mauritius is well placed to implement an open data initiative and demonstrates strong top-level commitments to transparency and to innovation, reveals an Open Data Readiness Assess...

Global FDI flows picked up in the first half of 2015, increasing by 13% compared to the second half of 2014. If we exclude the drop in the first half of 2014, global flows hav...