Tag: Trade governance - tralac trade law centre

Constitutional Court condemns South Africa’s role in demise of SADC Tribunal

15 Feb 19 Blog

In December 2018, the South African Constitutional Court ruled that the participation of the South African President in the decision to abolish the Southern African Development Com...

Prospects for reforming/strengthening the WTO

14 Feb 19 Blog

Media coverage of the discussions at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos (which combined globalization issues with the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”) sketched a mixed and...

Key decisions of the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union

12 Feb 19 News

Highlighted decisions adopted in Addis Ababa, January 2019 Decision on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Assembly: Endorsed the recommendations of African Uni...

The AfCFTA Institutions: Could the Secretariat hold the key to Implementation?

06 Feb 19 Publications

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a vast and ambitious undertaking. It is designed to be an African Union flagship endeavour. It must be implemented under the app...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

30 Jan 19 News

Featured commentary, Célestin Monga (Project Syndicate): Reaping the benefits of African economic integration East Africa’s private sector seeks larger role in resolving EAC ch...

2018 Corruption Perceptions Index: Undemocratic regimes undermine anti-corruption efforts in sub-Saharan Africa

30 Jan 19 News

The 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released on 29 January 2019 by Transparency International, reveals that the continued failure of most countries to significantly contro...

tralac’s Daily News Selection – a WEF special focus

22 Jan 19 News

The World Economic Forum 2019 began today in Davos: an easy guide Today’s profiled WEF session: Achieving a single market in Africa Africa needs to create 18 million jobs ...

World Bank president: list of reforms African states should be demanding

22 Jan 19 News

The World Bank will launch the process for selecting the new World Bank President on 7 February. There’s been a great deal of talk about the importance of an open and t...

Brexit after the Prime Minister’s Defeat

18 Jan 19 Blog

After a devastating defeat for Theresa May, the Brexit clock keeps ticking. On Tuesday 15 January, the House of Commons rejected her Bill on the Withdrawal Agreement with the Europ...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

17 Jan 19 News

African Economic Outlook 2019: Africa growth prospects remain steady, industry should lead growth (AfDB) Africa’s general economic performance continues to recover and GDP growt...

Economic transformation in Africa: key trends in 2019

15 Jan 19 News

The global economy is slowing down The US-China trade war, global increases in sovereign debt, and weak 2018 stock market performance have all weakened prospects for economic grow...

Africa trade and technology

15 Jan 19 News

Introduction It is perceived that economic nationalism has slowed the meteoric rise of global trade. Since the Uruguay Round created the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, tr...

Revenue sharing in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)

14 Dec 18 Blog

All customs, excise and additional duties (trade taxes) collected in the SACU Common Customs Area are paid into the Common Revenue Pool and shared among member states. Member state...

AGR-V launched in Kigali; emphasises need to improve governance of Africa’s abundant natural resources

05 Dec 18 News

The fifth edition of the African Governance Report (AGR-V) was launched and discussed by delegates attending the 2018 African Economic Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, on Tuesday. Th...

AEC2018: African countries must leverage their strengths to accelerate drive towards integration

04 Dec 18 News

Participants at the 13th African Economic Conference have called for African countries to leverage the full range of their strengths and resources to accelerate the ...

Let us make Africa’s infrastructure competitive, Zimbabwean Minister urges continent at PIDA Week

27 Nov 18 News

Africa needs to unite and work hard to reverse colonial infrastructure systems which promoted the extraction of profitable agricultural and mineral wealth for export at the expense...

Africa’s infrastructure deficit under spotlight as PIDA Week 2018 opens in Victoria Falls

26 Nov 18 News

The 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...

Modernisation of the multilateral trading system – WTO reforms

18 Nov 18 Blog

The multilateral trading system and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are today under threat. The system is being shaken by increasing protectionism and the imposition of non-tari...

American mid-term Elections: What International Implications?

18 Nov 18 Blog

The American mid-term elections took place during the first week of November 2018 and were keenly watched. Many have hoped that control by the Democratic Party of the House of Repr...

Is it time for a new Global Order?

18 Nov 18 Blog

The policies of President Trump have brought a new urgency to the debate about the future of the global economic and geopolitical order. American tariffs on Chinese goods[1], the w...