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As world leaders met at the recent United Nations summit to adopt global goals to end extreme poverty in 15 years, a determination to create broader and more participatory developm...

China’s growing interest in developing Africa’s infrastructure and economy goes a step further, as the 4th annual Africa Power and Infrastructure Forum (APIF) will be held in B...

Commissioners General of South Africa’s bordering countries are to formally establish a forum that will take forward the development of economies as well as to stop the illicit t...

The heartland of the global economy, the financial system, can evolve to serve its core purpose of growing and sustaining the real economy. A new UNEP report released at the Inter...

A new UNCTAD Policy Brief focuses on key questions concerning how to achieve target 17.11 of the Global Goals though improving market access conditions faced by the least developed...

FAO maps decline in both trade volumes and volatility for key agricultural commodities Agricultural commodities are going through a period of lower and less volatile prices, accor...

Kenyan and Ghanaian government officials are set to gather in November, with the aim of opening new economic frontiers to boost development and intra African trade between the coun...

The selection: Thursday, 8 October Pascal Lamy, José María Figueres, Oby Ezekwesili : ‘A fish called development’ (Policy Innovations) When political leaders meet at the 10...

As migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East continue to arrive in Europe in unprecedented numbers, a new World Bank/IMF report says that large-scale migration from poo...

A new UNCTAD Policy Brief argues that enhancing the contribution of investment to the growth and development process in Africa will require three complementary policy measures: boo...

Resource-rich economies face enormous challenges to manage volatile and unpredictable commodity prices. In its latest Fiscal Monitor, the IMF examines how countries can tax and spe...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal contains unprecedented provisions to combat illegal wildlife trade. UN Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner releas...

Mauritius has a deal with a Chinese firm to develop a $113 million fishing port and is working with investors on plans to become a maritime hub for Africa, part of its bid to accel...

The selection: Wednesday, 7 October The TPP deal gets done: what does it mean for developing countries? (CGD) From information available so far, it looks like there were improvem...

For most developing economies, integration into global financial markets has up to now had only weak linkages to their long-term development goals, the UNCTAD Trade and Development...

Report on the Global Forum on International Investment (GFII), 5 October 2015, Istanbul Ministers and High Officials from more than ten G-20 and non-G20 countries, Heads of Intern...

Presentation of the OECD-World Bank Group report, “Inclusive Global Value Chains: Policy options in trade and complementary areas for GVC integration by small and medium ent...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission has released the results from its 2015 Global Survey on trade finance – highlighting the impact of the trade financ...

The Central African Republic’s (CAR) biggest traders have purchased diamonds worth several million dollars without adequately investigating whether they financed armed groups res...

G20 trade ministers on Tuesday agreed to pursue deeper and wider reforms to ensure trade growth as it grew less than the global economy for the first time in the last four decades....