Tag: Sustainable development
Africa crafts message of sustainability for international climate negotiations
16 Apr 18 NewsAction on climate change and sustainable development together is the way forward for Africa. That is the top-line message that regional, public and private sector delegates will ca...
Senegal Economic Update: Recent growth drivers and the role of agriculture in developing a resilient and inclusive economy
16 Apr 18 NewsThis Senegal Economic Update (SEU) evaluates the recent (2016‐17) growth performance and macroeconomic policies in Senegal, thus providing a basis for the policy dialog with the ...
Indonesia and Africa synergize cooperation at Indonesia-Africa Forum 2018
11 Apr 18 NewsUnleashing potentials: Developing Sustainable Economic and Investment Cooperation
“[The] Indonesia-Africa Forum is the embodiment of the commitment of Indonesia and African coun...
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09 Apr 18 NewsThe IMF will has posted the analytical papers for the World Economic Outlook 2018. They cover: Labour force participation in advanced economies, Shifts in global manufacturing acti...
Banking on sunshine: World added far more solar than fossil fuel power generating capacity in 2017
09 Apr 18 NewsSolar energy dominated global investment in new power generation like never before in 2017.
The world installed a record 98 gigawatts of new solar capacity, far more than the net ...
Parliamentary group calls on Commonwealth leaders to put trade for development at the heart of CHOGM 2018 summit
03 Apr 18 NewsExpert committee highlights the untapped potential of trade and investment in the bloc for lifting millions of Commonwealth citizens out of poverty
An Inquiry Committee of disting...
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28 Mar 18 NewsAfCFTA updates:
(i) Posted by the AU:Decision on the draft agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area
(ii) Kenya’s Cabinet has approved the Africa Continen...
Circular economy will spur Africa’s transformation – experts
28 Mar 18 NewsAdoption of circular economy practices will go a long way in delivering economic growth, jobs and positive environmental outcomes needed for Africa, experts said yesterday.
A circ...
Illicit financial flows cost Uganda Shs2 trillion
28 Mar 18 NewsAfrican economies, including Uganda, will continue to bleed unless governments plug loopholes that enables illicit financial flows (IFFs) to easily leave the continent, experts hav...
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27 Mar 18 NewsAfCFTA special selection (2)
Trade and development events to diarise:
2018 Spring Meetings of the IMF, WBG (16-22 April, Washington)
53rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governor...
Services and structural transformation for development
27 Mar 18 NewsThis report contains papers and contributions delivered at the fifth session of UNCTAD’s multi-year expert meeting on trade, services and development: the role of the services ec...
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20 Mar 18 NewsProfiled trade and development events:
Yesterday, in Kigali: 18th Executive Council Meeting of the Extraordinary Summit on AfCFTA
Yesterday, in Addis: coordination meeting to pre...
New project to measure illicit financial flows in Africa
20 Mar 18 NewsUNCTAD and other UN bodies present new work on tracking the billions stolen from the continent each year through tax avoidance and such illegal activities as drug trafficking.
UNC...
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16 Mar 18 NewsAfCFTA updates ahead of next week’s Kigali summit:
(i) tralac’s Ashly Hope: Trade in services and the AfCFTA – no service is an island. The creation of the Continental Free ...
Making progress on sustainable development, four countries tipped to graduate from ranks of poorest
16 Mar 18 NewsBhutan, Kiribati, São Tomé and Príncipe and Solomon Islands have been recommended for graduation from the special UN category for least developed countries.
With increasing nat...
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14 Mar 18 NewsDiarise: SADC Council of Ministers to meet in Pretoria (26-27 March). Preparatory meetings start 22 March.
AfCFTA commentaries:
(i) ACBF’s Prof Emmanuel Nnadozie: Moving beyond...
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13 Mar 18 NewsImplications for Africa’s policy makers? China plans to set up a new international development cooperation agency ”as a key means of major-country diplomacy, enhance strategic ...
First Ordinary Session of the African Union STC Sub-Committee on Energy
13 Mar 18 NewsThe African Union, in collaboration with Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is organizing the First Ordinary Session of the STC Sub-Committee on Energy of the STC on...
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09 Mar 18 NewsECOWAS Commission gets a new President: Ivorian Jean-Claude Brou takes over from Marcel De Souza
African Union Commission, US State Department perspectives on AU-US relations:
Ch...
Africa’s population explosion is a ticking time bomb – African Development Bank Governors
09 Mar 18 NewsThe African Development Bank and its East and North African Governors have stressed the need for urgent measures to match the continent’s growing population and youth unemploymen...