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Southern Africa has taken its multi-billion-dollar infrastructure development plan to potential funders in China – a country that is now the leading investor in Africa. In the l...

The SADC Third Peer Review Panel meeting of Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors commenced in Bulawayo, Republic of Zimbabwe on 3 August 2015 to deliberate on key aspect...

The selection: Tuesday, 4 August Botswana to host SADC Summit: 7-18 August Southern African Business Forum: 11-12 August The 2015 SADC Peoples’ Summit: 15-16 August SADC: Thi...

Support and political will of African leaders is very critical in order to effectively promote regional integration but also allow capacity building institutions and development pa...

The Economic Commission for Africa has published its report on International Transport and Trade facilitation in North Africa. In this study, the ECA office for North Africa analys...

Surveillance of national trade policies is a fundamentally important activity running throughout the work of the WTO. At the centre of this work is the Trade Policy Review Mechanis...

Somalia should focus on strengthening the key building blocks for stability and growth as it recovers from more than two decades of civil war, the IMF says in its first review of t...

The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes published new peer review reports on 3 August for 12 countries or jurisdictions, moving furt...

A renewed sense of urgency to get things done characterised last Friday’s inter-state council meeting of ministers from Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and DR Congo as they dis...

The selection: Monday, 3 August Structural transformation is happening, but needs accelerating (UNECA) Sub-regional perspectives on structural change (UNECA/University of No...

Structural transformation has been one of the most talked about concepts among development practitioners in recent years – especially since the work of Margaret McMillan and Dani...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) on 31 July released trade statistics for June 2015 that recorded a trade surplus of R5.80 billion. This figure includes trade data with Bot...

Over 1,200 experts, policy makers and participants on 31 July 2015 adopted the Nairobi Action Agenda on Ecosystem based Adaptation for food security and formed the Ecosystem Based ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised UN Member States for reaching agreement on the draft outcome document that will constitute the new sustainable de...

A platform to connect farmers to grain buyers in the region was launched on 31st July 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. The platform, dubbed G-Soko, was developed by a Kenyan-based IT firm V...

Kenya and South Africa are expected to open fresh talks in Nairobi on Monday in a bid to resolve a visa standoff that has threatened their bilateral relations since last year. T...

The COMESA Council of Ministers during its 34th meeting held in Addis Ababa in March 2015, directed the Secretariat to convene a meeting of the policy think tanks and the private s...

The selection: Friday, 31 July SA's June trade data posted by SARS WTO updates its Statistics Database with revised 2014 data The WTO updated on 30 July 2015 its Statistics...

The United Nations is in the process of defining a post-2015 development agenda. This agenda will be launched at a Summit in New York in September 2015, currently being elaborated ...

Addressing global development issues often requires effective policy reforms. Some of these reforms are justified from a fiscal and macroeconomic perspective, but may have unintend...