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International forum will also endorse policy recommendations on food losses and waste and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture The Committee on World Food Security, the world’s...

“The super commodity cycle is behind us as producers again care more about cost containment than expansion,” according to economist Mike Schüssler. In a report he wrote for&n...

Investing in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): An Action Plan This edition of the World Investment Report provides valuable analysis that can inform global discussions on ...

IEA World Energy Outlook Special Report finds that action in the energy sector could unleash an extra decade of growth Increasing access to modern forms of energy is crucial to un...

EY launched a new report on 7 October 2014, Africa 2030: Realizing the possibilities, in advance of the firm’s Strategic Growth Forum Africa that took place at the Sandton C...

Much more work needs to be done to end poverty and close the gap in living standards between those in the bottom 40 percent and the top 60 percent of the population around the worl...

Leading members of the global investment community gathered to meet sustainable development stakeholders as UNCTAD’s World Investment Forum commenced with a grand opening ceremon...

Against the backdrop of a fragile and uneven global recovery, the IMF’s policy steering body – the International Monetary and Financial Committee – met today t...

As the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings wrapped up in Washington, DC on Sunday, finance ministers and bankers from around the world expressed deep concern...

Final statement Sun City, South Africa, 10 October 2014 The 19th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change was held in Sun City, South Africa, on 10 October 2014. H.E. Ms. ...

An end to the seemingly inexhaustible source of cheap, unskilled labour in Asia is within sight as rural wages rise sharply across the region – according to the Overseas Developm...

The level of foreign investors’ participation on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has continued to shrink, dropping to 25.17 per cent as at July, 2014. Foreign Portfolio Invest...

While Sub-Saharan Africa has sustained positive economic growth in the last 20 years, this growth has not translated into a fast-enough reduction in poverty, which remains more wid...

Trade is critical for boosting growth in developing world, particularly in Africa The World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have agreed to enhance their co-opera...

Sustaining growth in sub-Saharan Africa requires proactively addressing structural bottlenecks to growth such as infrastructure gaps and poor business climates, IMF African Departm...

Zambia plans to narrow its budget deficit in 2015, helped by changes to the mining tax regime which should boost revenue, Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda said on Friday. Pres...

President Paul Kagame on Thursday returned from Uganda where he had joined his regional counterparts for the Seventh Summit of the Heads of State of the Northern Corridor...

Ebola, climate change, lack of money for crucial infrastructure – the world’s risks loomed large as the World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings drew to a close. But solutions, too...

With more than 200 Customs bonds worth $100 million executed in the clearance of transit goods on the Northern Corridor in less than three years, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have ta...

East African traders have expressed fears that subsidised Egyptian products will swamp the regional market following a decision by the East African Community to extend the Free T...