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The World Bank’s Africa Trade Practice is introducing a series of working papers that aims to share new voices and analysis on the critical issues surrounding trade and regional ...

Africa continues to grow strongly but poverty and inequality remain persistently high Five years after the start of the global financial crisis, most countries in Sub-Saharan Afri...

The new UNCTAD publication Key Statistics and Trends in Trade Policy seeks to provide a snapshot of recent and medium-term developments. The report is intended to serve ...

COMESA Court orders a refund of customs duties to a small company In a landmark case, the COMESA Court of Justice has decided that the Government of Mauritius, by imposing a custo...

Developing and transition economies need to move towards more balanced growth and give a greater role to domestic demand in their development strategies, a new UNCTAD report conten...

Excellent innovation and strong institutional environments are increasingly influencing economies’ competitiveness, according to The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014, whic...

Between 2000 and 2009, eleven African countries grew at an annual rate of 7% or more, sufficient enough to double their economies in ten years. Because Africa’s collective GDP of...

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) took a step closer toward improving the integration of African port authorities on Wednesday after agreeing with the Namibian Port Authorit...

The implementation of the regional integration process of the member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and financial situation will top the meeting agenda...

The SADC Heads of State and Government Summit set for Lilongwe, Malawi this week will deliberate on a wide range of regional issues including the appointment of a new leadership fo...

During the launch of the high level panel of the post-2015 global agenda, held at the UN Conference Centre today in Addis Ababa, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Econom...

Amidst the new sense of optimism found in Africa’s new natural resources discoveries, rapid urbanisation and increased regional integration, the tripartite partnership of the Afr...

The Economic Development in Africa Report 2013, subtitled “Intra-African Trade: Unlocking Private Sector Dynamism”, says that efforts to date to spur jointly reinforcing e...

During an eight-day trip to Africa, President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious plan to improve access to electricity across the continent, a move the White House says is designed...

Africa has over the years been unable to boost internal commerce due to countries’ low level of connectedness, despite the existence of abundant empirical evidence showing that i...

An external review panel is calling on the World Bank to institute sweeping reforms to its widely cited annual “Doing Business” report, including doing away with a controversia...

Although Aid for Trade in Africa is starting to show results, interventions are urgently needed to overcome the short and long term constraints this was the key message by the Econ...

Member states of the African Union (AU) and political leaders must muster political will to surrender part of their sovereignty over trade, economic and financial issues to regiona...

The leaders of Africa, the world’s poorest continent in terms of economy but richly endowed in natural resources are facing the devil’s choice: to either invest their natural r...

The strides made by African economies in achieving economic growth must be accompanied by efforts to boost long-term competitiveness if the continent is to ensure sustainable impro...