Tag: Sustainable development

Poverty and Shared Prosperity in Malawi, 2004-2010 Malawi’s monetary poverty is high and did not lessen in rural areas between 2004 and 2010. The over-representation of poverty ...

A fast urbanizing Africa is rapidly degrading the environmental assets of its cities. Protecting those assets can increase the productivity and livability of these cities, improve...

Warming oceans, depleting sea life and plastic pollution are on the agenda for this week’s ocean summit at the United Nations, which will call for urgent action to improve the he...

Extracts from the Keynote Address by President Hage Geingob on the occasion of the launching of Namibia’s Fifth National Development Plan, 31 May 2017 Development is often defin...

FAO Director-General addresses European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development To achieve sustainable development we must transform current agriculture and ...

The 2nd East African Manufacturing Business Summit was held in Kigali, Rwanda at Kigali, Serena Hotel on 23-25 May 2017. The Business summit was officially opened by Rt. Hon An...

In recognition of Africa Day 2017, Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the significant recent decision by the AU to adopt a new self-funding mechanism Introduction The...

FAO study offers policy guidance for linking half of all cross-border trade to development goals Africa’s vast but informal cross-border trade can contribute to improving liveli...

In 2016, Africa as a whole maintained its position as the world’s second-fastest growing economies behind South Asia, according to data released during the Financial Present...

Selected highlights from the AfDB Annual Meeting in Ahmedabad: Akinwumi Adesina’s keynote speech, commentary by Pankaj Patel (FICCI president), AfDB, IFC to promote investm...

The 52nd Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the 43rd Meetings of the Board of Governors of the African Development Fund ...

African waters are powerful magnets for illegal and unregulated foreign fishing operations It was midnight on 14 December 2016, when five fishermen in Tombo village near Freetown ...

Selected trade and development event pointers: 7th SADC River Basin Organisation officials’ workshop (22-24 May, Johannesburg) UNCTAD/DTI regional seminar: Bankable Sustainable...

Promises made for financing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals must be promises kept, speakers said yesterday at the opening of a United Nations forum. “The...

UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa convened a high level event hosted by the African Union Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations on Tuesday, 16 May 2017. Billed as a k...

Degol Hailu and Chinpihoi Kipgen of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently introduced the Extractives Dependence Index (EDI) to measure a country’s dependence o...

Nigeria can build on the oil-driven economic recovery anticipated for it in 2017 by strengthening its macroeconomic policy framework and implementing the structural reforms needed ...

The 2017 Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) officially kicked-off in Addis Ababa on 17 May with Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Afri...

Zimbabwe’s former Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister, Tapiwa Mashakada (MDC-T), has been elected the new chairperson of PAP’s Committee on Trade, Customs and I...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is looking to strengthening its relationship with India as part of its larger agenda for a ‘a more robust Africa’. Motivated by the success...