Tag: Sustainable development
2018 Meeting of SADC Ministers for Employment and Labour and Social Partners
07 Mar 18 NewsReport of the Outgoing Chair (South Africa)
The past year has been challenging for the SADC-ELS and equally the Troika. Our starting point was to examine and introduce new ways of...
Post-MC11: Charting a way forward for LDCs, SVEs and SSA countries
07 Mar 18 NewsThe 11th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC11) was held from 10-13 December 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against a backdrop of considerable changes to th...
Ticad VI key to Kenya’s industry plan
05 Mar 18 NewsThe sixth Tokyo International Conference of Africa’s Development, TICAD, took place for the first time in Africa in Kenya in August 2016, and opened doors for more business betwe...
New book highlights how safe trade solutions help the poorest countries
27 Feb 18 NewsToday’s global trade landscape is changing. Higher levels of competition mean consumers worldwide are demanding safer food. Across continents, climate change is adding to th...
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26 Feb 18 NewsThe concept note and draft programme for tralac’s 2018 Annual Conference are available to download: The African Continental Free Trade Area – opportunity for Africa
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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through consumer protection
26 Feb 18 NewsNew publication aims to provide policymakers and enforcers with a basis for reflection on the positive impacts that protecting consumers bears in promoting a more inclusive and sus...
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
23 Feb 18 BlogIn September 2015, the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development were adopted by world leaders. The overarching rationale for the SDGs is to eradicate poverty, protect...
Africa’s prosperity also lies in creating decent and attractive jobs for rural youth
23 Feb 18 NewsFAO Director-General: explore opportunities along the food chain, including urban food markets
Agriculture will continue to generate employment in Africa over the coming decades, ...
Collective action is key to defending trade, Geneva Dialogue hears
20 Feb 18 NewsChallenges to the multilateral trading system can be met by collective institutions like UNCTAD defending trade’s power to pull more people out of poverty.
The time has come to ...
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19 Feb 18 NewsRwanda maintains tough stance on used clothes (New Times)
However, in an interview, Vincent Munyeshyaka, Trade and Industry Minister maintained that despite the consequences of be...
Platform Partners’ Statement at the closing of the conference on taxation and SDGs
19 Feb 18 NewsMajor international organizations – including the IMF, OECD, UN and World Bank Group – on 14 February 2018 called on governments from around the world to strengthen and in...
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16 Feb 18 NewsFrom RECs to a Continental FTA: Strategic tools to assist negotiators and agricultural policy design in Africa (UNCTAD)
The establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA)...
30th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Africa
16 Feb 18 NewsSustainable development of agriculture and food systems in Africa
Improving the means of production and the creation of decent and attractive employment for youth
The 30th F...
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15 Feb 18 NewsHow Kenya’s famous roses almost missed Valentines Day – a stimulating twitter thread, by @MatinaStevis, of her Wall Street Journal article posted yesterday:
“First things fi...
Seminar on staple crop processing zones in Africa: From vision to action
12 Feb 18 NewsThe African Development Bank organised a seminar on “Enhancing Knowledge on the Challenges and Opportunities of Developing and Implementing Staple Crop Processing Zones in Africa...
Resilience in Africa: “Providing solutions is an act of justice and an indicator of global progress”
12 Feb 18 NewsThe second edition of the Africa Resilience Forum organized by the African Development Bank opened on Thursday, February 8, 2018 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. More t...
African leaders prep for summit on continental trade deal
09 Feb 18 NewsAfrican national leaders concluded the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union last week, with the summit adopting a series of decisions on issues related to con...
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06 Feb 18 NewsNiger assumes the G5 Sahel Presidency during this week’s Niamey summit
Mozambique joins the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Southern African states (European C...
Expert group meeting: Macroeconomic policies and women’s economic empowerment
06 Feb 18 NewsThe expert group meeting on “Macroeconomic policies and women’s economic empowerment” took place on 5-6 February 2018 in Berlin, Germany.
The event brought together more tha...
Promises to world’s poorest need to be kept to stop massive inequalities, new trends show
05 Feb 18 NewsUNCTAD analysis shows that development indicators for the 47 least developed countries are trending downward, raising the alarm for the international community
Economic developmen...