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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 15 April 2015 called on business leaders to expand investment in low-carbon growth and opportunities to advance sustainabl...

Insurance companies are struggling to gain a foothold in Africa, where populations tend to favour community insurance schemes called tontines. These are often informal agreeme...

The aim of this report is to present an up-to-date overview of the commodity dependence in developing countries in a friendly and easy-to-understand manner. In fact, commodities r...

Joint Civil Society Public Statement Today [14 April 2015] the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) wasted a ground-breaking opportunity to tackle the d...

In the global context of a moderate and uneven economic recovery, sound management of public finances can secure elusive growth and jobs. In its latest Fiscal Monitor, the IM...

Effects of Ebola on household welfare likely to reach well beyond the end of health crisis The return to work continues in Liberia, led by gains for wage workers and the rural sel...

Growth in the volume of world merchandise trade will pick up only slightly over the next two years, rising from 2.8% in 2014 to 3.3% in 2015 and eventually to 4.0% in 2016, WTO eco...

A new report by the World Bank analyzing Malawi’s economic development shows that the country’s economy continues to grow at a moderate pace and that GDP will not be overly aff...

Mauritius’ intent to join TISA and the EU’s position on the LDC Services Waiver suggest a rare instance where regional negotiations – in this case, the Economic Partnership A...

South Africa and the United States have agreed to continue to work together to address concerns around the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which is designed to help qua...

The economic progress Ethiopia has been scoring since the introduction of the Agricultural-led Industrialization Economy has taken the attention of the international media and orga...

Russia’s proposal to create an inter-parliamentary group in a joint effort to protect the economic and political interests, influence politics at the global arena and as an impor...

What role for trade, and how to build coherence between, the proposed sustainable development goals and the ongoing financing for development talks? The final set of sustainable d...

Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth will slow in 2015 to 4.0 percent from 4.5 percent in 2014, according to World Bank projections released on Monday. This downturn largely reflects the...

More than 2,000 containers that have overstayed at the Mombasa port are set to be auctioned after the storage-charge waiver given to importers expires Tuesday. On February 14, the...

Sixteen countries within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) may have started the implementation of uniform tariff on imports, beginning from 11 April 2015. The...

China could have outsized influence over a new Beijing-backed international development bank under a proposed shareholding structure likely to be discussed at a meeting of member n...

Council established by President Obama meets to help fulfill his commitment to the continent U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on 8 April 2015 hosted the first meeting of ...

As the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) revenue sharing formula debate rages on, it would be best for Swaziland to start exploring other trade options within the region to inc...

Sixty policy makers from 15 least developed countries in Africa came together to discuss mainstreaming trade into national policies aimed at reducing poverty. A regional workshop ...