tralac’s Daily News Selection
12 Dec 18 NewsStarting tomorrow:
Ministerial Retreat, in Nairobi, on trade facilitation in the EAC: ministers are expected to adopt a declaration of policy objectives for a regional trade f...
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Inaugural Intra-African Trade Fair to drive continent’s development of export manufacturing
12 Dec 18 NewsThe first-ever Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) to be held on the continent opened on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 in Cairo, Egypt with the President of the African Export-Import ...
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At closing of the 2018 African Economic Conference, economic integration is seen as a game-changer for achieving inclusive sustainable development
07 Dec 18 NewsEconomic integration is a game-changing reality and African countries must fully embrace it to achieve sustainable and inclusive development that reduce poverty and inequality in a...
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tralac in the news ~ AEC2018: Moving the AfCFTA agreement ahead with quick win solutions
05 Dec 18 NewsA total of 44 African nations signed the landmark African Continental Free Trade Area agreement earlier this year, with only 12 out of the required 22 countries ratifying the accor...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
04 Dec 18 NewsSome keynote, Q1 2019, African trade policy discussions to diarise:
Trade Policy Review for the East African Community (20, 22 March 2019, Geneva). This will be the only Afric...
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AEC2018: African countries must leverage their strengths to accelerate drive towards integration
04 Dec 18 NewsParticipants at the 13th African Economic Conference have called for African countries to leverage the full range of their strengths and resources to accelerate the ...
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AEC2018: Africa must focus on its big resource – its young people, experts urge
04 Dec 18 NewsProfessor Paul Collier, one of the world’s most influential development economists, warns that Africa’s “easy decade” of accelerated economic growth is coming to an end, an...
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Africa’s infrastructure deficit under spotlight as PIDA Week 2018 opens in Victoria Falls
26 Nov 18 NewsThe Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week 2018 opened in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe on Monday with a media breakfast that brought together journalists, infra...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
20 Nov 18 NewsThe South Africa-Zimbabwe bilateral free trade agreement terminates today. What does this mean for the future of their bilateral trade relationship? A tralacBlog by Elisha Tsh...
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World’s poorest countries must nurture dynamic businesses
20 Nov 18 NewsUNCTAD’s Least Developed Countries Report 2018 examines how the world’s most disadvantaged countries can foster entrepreneurship to create jobs and help end poverty.
Governmen...
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Billions more people must benefit from trade gains, experts say
20 Nov 18 NewsA global system that leaves the top 1% as rich as the bottom 56% is overdue for reform, with women’s economic exclusion among the highest priorities.
While some countries and so...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
13 Nov 18 NewsRegional Risks for Doing Business 2018 (WEF)
Of the 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that we surveyed, “unemployment and underemployment” was identified as the most pressing...
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Uganda: 9th Annual Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Sector Review Conference
05 Nov 18 NewsEnhancing Competitiveness of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises for National Export Development
Speech by Hon. Amelia Kyambadde, Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperat...
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The Economic Partnership Agreements and EU-Africa trade relations: Joint statement from EU and African trade unions
02 Nov 18 NewsJoint ITUC-Africa/ETUC/ITUC Statement on the EU Economic Partnership Agreements with Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community, the Southern African D...
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Africa: A time for sustained optimism?
24 Oct 18 NewsPublic Lecture by Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga at Duke University
It is always a great pleasure and honor to speak in a prestigious academic institution. It gives me an opportunity ...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
22 Oct 18 NewsDiarise:
(i) The East African Legislative Assembly resumed its sitting in Arusha this morning: it continues until 10 November. This week’s EAC calendar of events can be accessed...
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Export diversification and employment in Africa
19 Oct 18 NewsThere is a general consensus that trade has high potential to foster inclusive growth and create employment.
Thus, classical trade theorists recommended active trade participatio...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
12 Oct 18 NewsDiarise:
(i) COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Transport and Transit Facilitation Programme: validation workshop for cross border road transport agreements, model laws and regulations (2...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
10 Oct 18 NewsSelected African trade events now underway:
NTM Week 2018 (9-11 October, Geneva: Shaping sustainable trade amid protectionism
2nd Africa-Turkey Economic and Business Forum (10-11...
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Alan Wolff: “The importance of the rules-based multilateral trading system cannot be overestimated”
09 Oct 18 NewsAt a speech delivered to the University of the Western Cape in South Africa on 8 October, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff highlighted the importance of trade as an engine of eco...
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