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The selection: Wednesday, 8 July Tax inspectors shrug off borders to track multi-national evasion (Bloomberg) Step aside, Doctors Without Borders. A new class of professiona...

This week the leaders of the BRICS nations and their trade ministers meet for their annual summit in Ufa, Russia. In 2014 as far as commerce was concerned, they focused on promotin...

Restrictive legal and regulatory policies coupled with poor infrastructure and logistic services are holding back East Africa’s manufacturing sector, says the Africa Development ...

Continued poor performance of manufacturing and tourism industries could derail Kenya’s plans of attaining over 6.5 per cent growth this year. The two sectors were the onl...

A ten-year, multibillion-dollar plan to upgrade Uganda’s transportation network and power generation is poised to benefit the East African nation’s citizens and those of n...

Context and Rationale Remarkable economic progress has been made in Africa since the early 2000. Economic estimates for Africa for 2014 and 2015 project an average growth rate of ...

The increasing complexity of global trade, manifest in the rise of global value chains, is driving demand for better trade data. At the “Trade Data Day” on 3 July, WTO Deputy D...

The COMESA Virtual Trade Facilitation System (CVTFS) has been launched in DR Congo. Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya and the Deputy Director-General of the Department of Customs a...

The selection: Tuesday, 7 July Featured tweets: @Francismangeni: There are no similarities between the Greek crisis and regional integration in Africa now, but important lessons&...

In its assessment of the European Union’s trade policy, the WTO Secretariat pays tribute to the critical role played by the EU in the Organization. It highlights the EU’s remar...

The BRICS countries may sign an agreement on economic integration in the next 5 years, says Russia’s Deputy Economic Development Minister Alexei Likhachev. Russia will offer a ...

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) galvanized the world to produce the most successful anti-poverty movement in history, helped lift more than one billion peopl...

It is a well-known fact that EU trade policy is a significant tool for development policy. Indeed, the EU has a long tradition of granting preferential access into its market for e...

The slowdown in productivity over the past decade has added to concerns about the long-term economic outlook. But new OECD research shows that policy reforms can revive the diffusi...

The selection: Monday, 6 July SADC's Executive Secretary, Dr Stergomena Tax, has joined Twitter: follow her on @DrTaxs EAC: 3rd Emergency Summit on Burundi takes place today in D...

In one of the side events organized in the framework of the 5th Global Review of Aid for Trade, Mr. Stephen Karingi, Director of ECA’s Regional Integration and Trade Divisio...

United Nations member States are meeting from 6-10 July 2015 in Geneva to reaffirm the validity of the only multilateral instrument adopted by the UN General Assembly in the area o...

The Seychelles archipelago of 90,000 people has been accepted into an exclusive club of 83 nations on the World Bank’s ‘high income’ list. The Seychelles, together with...

Trade leaders focus on the new, more results-based phase of the EIF and the role of trade in services in global trade on day two of the event. Trade-led development of least devel...

The Appellate Body issued on 3 July 2015 its Annual Report for 2014. The Report includes information about appeals filed by WTO members, the key findings of reports circulated in 2...