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Trade flows World trade flows, measured in terms of import volumes, continued to grow at a slow pace in 2014, expanding at about 3.3 per cent, slightly faster than in 2013 but sti...

The Monitor finds that 33 countries or economies took 45 investment policy measures in the review period (March 2014-December 2014). The share of liberalization and promotion measu...

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) on 14 January 2015 determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty orders on ferrovanadium from China and South Africa would ...

EgyptAir has announced that it will resume direct flights to Kenya as it seeks to deepen its business ties with East Africa. The resumption date will be set after negotiations. ...

A new development plan designed to help Senegal exit a trap of low growth and high poverty can boost the economy if it is consistently implemented, the IMF staff said in its r...

The newly-launched Eastern and Southern African Trade Fund is looking to raise up to US$1bn to support intra-African trade finance transactions. The fund, set up in December last ...

China has become big in Africa. Now for the backlash Across Africa, radio call-in programmes are buzzing with tales of Africans, usually men, bemoaning the loss of their spouses a...

Most trade moves along a few high-density routes: the corridors. Improving their performance has emerged as a necessary ingredient for growth and integration into the regional and ...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in his address to the Partnership Summit of the Confederation of Indian Industry in Jaipur on 16 January 2015, said: “It is in the interest of ...

The 2014 Poverty Status Report uses new evidence to present an updated analysis of Uganda’s poverty trends and status. The report’s thematic focus is the relationship between s...

The Country Strategy Paper (CSP) provides a framework for the Bank Group support to Botswana for the period 2014-2019. The CSP was developed within the context of the Government...

The Ministers of Health and representatives of private sector from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries agreed to establish a health trust fund to sustain the...

Regional blocs including the East African Community (EAC) should introduce a levy on imports to help self-finance its organs, a new report suggests. The regional entities have d...

Participants at the just concluded global seminar on the role of parliaments in the development of extractive industries have committed to ensure that the mining sector in Africa h...

A committee comprising the African Development Bank and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) has been relaunched with the aim of fostering partnership between the two players in orde...

Cities in developing countries are growing at a rapid pace. However, the associated positives of strong economic growth and rising real incomes have come with the negatives of low-...

The Benguela Railway was once Angola’s bloodline, carrying goods to and from the interior of the country, and onwards to Zambia and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). ...

Japan will on Friday advance to Kenya a Sh25 billion loan to fund the second phase of Mombasa port expansion. The money, to be given through the Japan Bank for International Corpo...

Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth improved, for the second consecutive year, to 4.5 percent in 2014. Despite headwinds, growth is projected to pick up to 5.1 percent by 2017, lifted by...

The study presents cases from Africa, Asia and Latin America, which provide contrasting experiences of the role of technology transfer and absorption in the development of differen...