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World needs policies for demand-led recovery from global financial crisis, argues UNCTAD study presented to G-20
10 Feb 2014Weaker global demand and not new trade barriers or supply-side difficulties are responsible for the slow growth in international trade, an UNCTAD study presented to a G-20 working ...
read moreTTIP talks ready to accelerate
10 Feb 2014The U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks are ready to resume after a quiet time since the last meeting in mid-December. U.S. Trade Representative (US...
read moreMalawi: IMF Country Report No. 14/37
10 Feb 2014This paper focuses on Malawi’s Third and Fourth Reviews Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement. Donors have suspended some aid disbursements to Malawi in response t...
read moreTourism in Africa is an untapped goldmine: report
07 Feb 2014The future of tourism in Africa holds great potential, but its expansion and development depends on better transport infrastructure – including airline connections, roads and rai...
read moreAzevêdo urges members to make 2014 the year to implement Bali and put Doha back on track
07 Feb 2014At the first meeting of WTO ambassadors after the 9th Ministerial Conference, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told the Trade Negotiations Committee on 6 February that: “Bali re...
read moreIndia-SACU free trade agreement needs ‘fine-tuning’
07 Feb 2014The increasing amount of trade between Namibia and India is expected to balloon even further once the India-Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Preferential Free Trade Agreement ...
read moreEU seals free trade deal with West Africa
06 Feb 2014Negotiators from West Africa and the EU have put pen to paper on a €42 billion-a-year free trade deal with the West African trade bloc after 10 years of haggling, but ongoing tal...
read moreAfricans roast SA for lack of openness
06 Feb 2014Frustration over Africa’s disparate tax, travel, investment and trading regimes boiled over yesterday as Chris Kirubi, a leading Kenyan businessman and one of the wealthiest peop...
read moreGreater competitiveness and regional integration critical for South Africa’s growth and opportunity
06 Feb 2014Greater export competitiveness and deeper regional integration could help propel South Africa towards faster-growing exports, allowing it to achieve higher, more inclusive, job-int...
read more‘SA needs more open dialogue on mines’
05 Feb 2014The government needs to focus more on working together with the mining sector in a way that will benefit all people in the country, Randgold Resources CEO Mark Bristow said on Tues...
read moreLagarde calls for a ‘new multilateralism for 21st century’
05 Feb 2014Responding to current and future economic trends requires a renewed commitment to international cooperation, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in delivering the 2014 Dim...
read moreSwaziland knocked by falling tax revenues
05 Feb 2014The flight of foreign direct investment out of Swaziland is apparent in falling tax revenues and is one sign of expected challenges to the economy this year.
Gross domestic produc...
read moreAfrica mineral resources ‘grossly under-explored’: Shabangu
04 Feb 2014Africa’s unmined metals and minerals lie waiting for investors, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Monday.
Speaking at the start of the African Mining Indaba in C...
read moreZuma: AU committed to tackling intra-Africa trade bottlenecks
04 Feb 2014President Jacob Zuma says the African heads of state have prioritised tackling infrastructure bottlenecks to enable intra-Africa investment to happen in a bid to boost the continen...
read moreFree trade area: Looking beyond the EAC
04 Feb 2014Experts believe that the creation of a bigger free trade zone beyond the East African Community through opening borders and addressing policies that impede trade is the gateway to ...
read moreEACJ jurisdiction ‘should cover investment litigation’
03 Feb 2014Regional lawyers have added their voice to the push to have the jurisdiction of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) extended in a bid to effectively arbitrate in litigation re...
read moreEAC states fail to strike trade deal with Europe
03 Feb 2014The just concluded negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between East Africa Community (EAC) member states and the European Union (EU) markets have once again ...
read moreRed tape, bribes strangle growth
03 Feb 2014When John Endres, CEO of Good Governance Africa, presents his views on the state of Africa to international audiences, he illustrates his talk with three maps.
The first covers th...
read moreGlobal value chains should benefit the people – Schlettwein
03 Feb 2014Investment in value addition activities that multinational companies make around the world should be extended to benefit developing countries Minister of Trade and Industry Calle S...
read moreSouth Africa, pharmaceutical industry face off on patent reform
31 Jan 2014South Africa’s efforts to reform its intellectual property (IP) regime in order to improve access to medicines has sparked a firestorm in recent weeks, with major pharmaceutical ...
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