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The IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings starting this week in Washington will discuss how to break through prolonged low growth and generate more growth and more jobs, IMF Managing Dire...

The Ninth African Development Forum will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 to 16 October 2014 on the theme “Innovative financing for Africa’s transformation”. The Forum ...

An agency of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Namibia Trade Forum (NTF), that aims to chart out the formation of Task Teams, their terms of references, as well as the guidel...

Nigeria’s quest for economic diversification may be imperilled by the continuing suspension of the Export Expansion Grant (EEG), with current backlog of Negotiable Duty Customs C...

Move paves way for institutional investors to help fill infrastructure gaps in developing world: US$1 trillion a year in extra investment needed through 2020. The heads of some of...

Prepared for the Committee of Central Bank Governors in SADCbyCentral Bank of LesothoAugust 2014 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has sequenced a number of activi...

1. We, the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development, held our ninety-second meeting in Washington, D.C. on October 9, 2014 with Nagl...

The parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity began meeting on 6 October 2014 as a new United Nations report on the status of biodiversity warned that much more efficient u...

In a newly released report prepared in 2014 by the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) East Africa Regional Resource Center in Nairobi, Kenya, on the occasion of the Bank...

The heads of dozens of transnational corporations and other private sector stakeholders will meet with Heads of State and government authorities to launch major new initiatives in ...

The total value of global trade today exceeds US$ 20 trillion, partly as a result of innovations in logistics and changes in policies in countries around the world thus leading to ...

Africa’s share of world agricultural trade has increased in recent years after decades of decline, and trade among African countries has been on the rise. Both trends have booste...

The EAC has been negotiating a free trade agreement with the EU for more than 10 years, but it has so far failed to seal a deal on an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Kenya is...

Policymakers are facing a new global imbalance: not enough economic risk-taking in support of growth, but growing excesses in financial risk-taking, which pose challenges to financ...

Kenya is negotiating new double taxation agreements (DTA) with several countries as the country moves to expand investment space. Draft DTAs have already been prepared for negotia...

“We are here to listen to you and make swift improvements,” says Ahmed Shide, MoFED The European Union Business Forum Ethiopia (EUBFE) pleaded for an urgent improvement of t...

Growth may exceed five percent in 2015-16, but Ebola, terrorism and other risks pose concern Despite a weaker than expected global economy, with a number of major countries showin...

Traders are losing millions of francs through non-tarriff barriers (NTBs) along the Northern and Central corridors, a new survey has revealed. According to a survey by the Nationa...

It will see Egypt talk to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Southern African Development Community (SADC), and East African Community (EAC) Egypt will pa...

FinMark Trust released the results of its first FinScope Consumer Mauritius 2014 survey results on 3 October 2014. The FinScope Survey, developed by FinMark Trust, is a research to...