Tag: Trade in services
World trade in services: evidence from a new dataset
31 Mar 17 NewsUsing a newly constructed dataset on trade in services for 192 countries from 1970 to 2014, this IMF Working Paper shows that services currently constitute one-fourth of world trad...
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29 Mar 17 NewsToday, in Pretoria: SADC Ministers of Labour and Home Affairs are gathered for ‘2017 Regional Conference on Migration Initiatives’. Featured tweet, @IOMROpretoria: Half of SADC...
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24 Mar 17 NewsThe Africa Development Week opens in Dakar with a clarion call for policies that cater for youth
Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sierra Leone: Youths get network for sub-regional trade ...
WTO members review further proposals to ease global trade in services
24 Mar 17 NewsWTO members discussed five new or enhanced proposals to advance services negotiations at meetings of the Working Party on Domestic Regulation and the Services Council on 14-17 Marc...
African Ministers adopt Declaration for the STC on Transport, Intercontinental and Interregional Infrastructure, Energy and Tourism
22 Mar 17 NewsThe Ministerial Session of the First Ordinary Session of the AU Specialized Technical Committee on Transport, Intercontinental and Interregional Infrastructure, Energy and Tou...
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16 Mar 17 NewsThe Abidjan Declaration (pdf), issued at the conclusion of the Industrialization in Africa seminar (AERC, AfDB, UNU-WIDER). Presentation slides (pdf) by Finn Tarp, Carol Newman.
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Increased off-grid and mini-grid investments could solve Africa’s electricity crisis, says Annan report
14 Mar 17 NewsAfrican governments and their partners need to move faster to bridge the continent’s huge energy gap. That means adopting every available solution, on and off the grid, according...
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02 Mar 17 NewsFour events to diarise:
SA’s trade and industry minister Rob Davies: ‘Implications of changing international trade: the view from South Africa’ (8 March, Chatham House, Lond...
The rise of China in world trade and a crystal ball analysis for future Chinese trade
01 Mar 17 PublicationsThis paper considers China’s position in world trade from two perspectives. The first section details the evolution of Chinese trade over the period 2001-2013, with an update of ...
Aviation experts brainstorm on how airlines can keep afloat, in business
27 Feb 17 NewsFor two days, last week, Kigali hosted a continental aviation forum that brought together over 500 delegates from over 50 institutions and firms with multiple conversations about t...
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22 Feb 17 NewsArvind Subramanian: The WTO reborn? (Project Syndicate)
For too long, the World Trade Organization has languished, to lift a reference from T.S. Eliot, by the “waters of Leman...
Trade in services and economic transformation: A new development policy priority
22 Feb 17 NewsServices play a vital role in economic transformation and job creation in poor countries, but the effects are different from those in agriculture or manufacturing. While much of th...
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21 Feb 17 NewsAfrican Corridor Alliance established to stimulate development (New Era)
The ACMA secretariat will assist in unbundling, prioritising and sequencing corridor-orientated initiative...
Cross-border e-commerce is one of the fastest growth opportunities in retail, according to DHL report
20 Feb 17 NewsCross-border online retail predicted to grow at twice the rate of domestic e-commerce (CAGR: 25%) until 2020; retailers can grow 60% faster with a premium service offering
DHL Exp...
Realising the potential of services SMEs in developing economies
17 Feb 17 NewsThe development of services sectors in least developed countries (LDCs) and low-income countries (LICs) has the potential to generate economic growth, raise incomes, and reduce pov...
Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segments
17 Feb 17 NewsSub-Saharan Africa’s air transport, though low in overall volume when compared to other regions in the world, has experienced significant growth in the last decade, both in inter...
Trade, finance, and development: Getting the institutions right
17 Feb 17 NewsWhat should policymakers do to improve the enabling environment for trade and finance to better contribute to sustainable development?
The primacy of economic institutions as dete...
Madagascar: the trade policy and performance profile
16 Feb 17 PublicationsThis paper examines the trade profile and performance of Madagascar, focusing on the period since 2001. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO, 2015), Madagascar is slowly ...
Is any stakeholder happy with the ICT Policy White Paper?
16 Feb 17 DiscussionTarik Oguz, tralac Research Advisor – Information and Communication Technologies, comments on the debate surrounding the recently-published ICT Policy White Paper for South Afric...
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14 Feb 17 NewsApplications close on 6 March for tralac’s online course ‘Trade in the 21st Century: legal and policy considerations for Africa’.
Profiled appointment: Paul Noumba Um...