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The World Bank cautioned on 12 April 2014 against any complacency in tackling Africa’s enduring development challenges. The warning came even as the World Bank praised Africa fo...

The current EU-US negotiations should be a wake-up call for African governments to be proactive and limit the burden that a trade deal of this magnitude will unquestionably bring a...

A decade after former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s made his landmark ‘fork in the road’ speech to the General Assembly calling for the reform of the global body, the Exe...

It is my pleasure to share with you UNCTAD’s IIA Issues Note on the latest developments in investor-State dispute settlement. ISDS continues to be in the spotlight thanks to...

For centuries, colonial-era merchants tussled for access to Africa’s raw materials, and huge swathes of Africa’s geography became synonymous with the main commodity they e...

World trade is expected to grow by a modest 4.7% in 2014 and at a slightly faster rate of 5.3% in 2015 WTO economists said today (14 April 2014). Although the 2014 forecast o...

The leaders of the five members of the East Africa Community – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda – recently signed an agreement to form a single regional currenc...

The all-important Industrial Relations (amendment) Bill of 2014, whose passing is crucial to the kingdom’s continued AGOA eligibility status, has been withdrawn from parliam...

Aid for trade has bounced back, with Africa as the largest beneficiary, WTO members heard on 9 April 2014, in a meeting where they also discussed the priorities for next two y...

The recent fourth Africa-EU Summit, held in Brussels, Belgium, under the theme of Investing in Peace, Prosperity and People, marked the beginning of a turning point ...

If President Jacob Zuma signs the regulation amendment into law, South Africa’s credibility will be put at risk, say critics. The test case for what it takes to shatter inv...

As economies around the world become increasingly connected and intertwined, we must put a global trade system in place that can adapt to this ever-changing 21st century ...

Three recent trade reports have suggested that with many economies still feeling vulnerable in the wake of the global financial crisis, governments are resorting to trade prot...

South Africa’s upcoming general elections on 7 May have thrown a spanner in the works of the much-anticipated national draft intellectual property policy from coming into ef...

Development aid rose by 6.1% in real terms in 2013 to reach the highest level ever recorded, despite continued pressure on budgets in OECD countries since the global economic ...

Corrupt and opaque financial practices deprive resource-rich developing countries of “staggering” amounts of money, UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi said at the ope...

For the past 19 years Sub-Saharan Africa has continued to make impressive strides in sustaining economic growth. After five years of prolonged weakness in the global economy, ...

The Minister of Trade and Industry Dr Rob Davies launched the sixth iteration of the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) in Sandton...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told the Trade Negotiations Committee that “it’s time to shift things up a gear” in developing a work programme for the conclusion of the Do...

Tanzania is working round the clock to see how it can best implement and gain from the challenging Bali WTO Agreement by making a needs’ assessment as well as working on tra...