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The WTO marked on Day 3 of the Public Forum the 20th anniversary of its founding with the launch of a new book looking back at its two decades of achievements, its setbacks, and th...

Analysis turns tables on “ticking time bomb” narrative to reveal world’s largest youth population is as important to African agriculture as seeds and soil A hard hitting rep...

The selection: Friday, 2 October The effects of the Tripartite Free Trade Area: towards a new economic geography in Southern, Eastern and Northern Africa? (CREDIT) This stud...

South Africa is fighting to retain duty-free access for exports to the U.S. worth as much as $1.7 billion a year in a dispute that pits farmers in the two nations against each othe...

Economic growth prospects for Africa over the next 50 years present both opportunities and challenges for port terminal operators, writes Transnet Port Terminals chief executive Ka...

Illicit Trade: fighting money laundering in international trade Remarks by David M. Luna, Senior Director for National Security and Diplomacy Anti-Crime Progra...

Speakers at the UNCTAD 62nd Trade and Development Board said that international investment agreements must preserve States’ abilities to adopt policies that support the SDGs. A b...

WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo launched a new publication entitled “The Making of the TRIPS Agreement: Personal Insights from the Uruguay Round Negotiations” on Day 2 of...

Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström spoke on the future of Trade policy at New York’s Columbia University on 25 September. She called for a trade policy based on economic ...

The selection: Thursday, 1 October Entering uncharted waters: El Niño and the threat to food security (Oxfam) Millions of poor people in Southern Africa, Asia and Central Americ...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for August 2015 that recorded a trade deficit of R9.95 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswana...

More collaboration is needed to ensure the benefits of trade are enjoyed by all, panellists agreed at the plenary debates of the WTO’s 2015 Public Forum on 30 September. The need...

WTO economists have lowered their forecast for world trade growth in 2015 to 2.8%, from the 3.3% forecast made in April, and reduced their estimate for 2016 to 3.9% from 4.0%. The...

Exchange rate movements still have sizable effects on exports and imports, according to new research from the International Monetary Fund. Recent currency movements have been unus...

Millions of poor people in Southern Africa, Asia and Central America face hunger and poverty this year and next because of droughts and erratic rains as global temperatures reach n...

With a weak outlook for commodity prices, particularly for energy and metals, growth in commodity-exporting emerging and developing economies could slow further over the next few y...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo launched a new publication entitled on Day 1 of the Public Forum on 30 September 2015, entitled “WTO Accessions and Trade Multilateralism: ...

The selection: Wednesday, 30 September Underway, in Lusaka: the African Green Revolution Forum Launched, in Lusaka: AECF Impact Report 2014 Starting Thursday, in Kigali: 6th Afr...

A failure to embrace long-term structural reforms that boost productivity and free up entrepreneurial talent is harming the global economy’s ability to improve living standards, ...

The deadlock in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) so called Doha Development Round negotiations remains firmly in place. Negotiators seem unable to meet deadline after deadline fo...