Tag: Trade in services
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...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
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...
Efficient trucking is a growth enabler: New IRU-World Bank guide to reform
10 Feb 17 NewsThe World Bank and the International Road and Transport Union (IRU) have jointly released a new guide on Road Freight Transport Services Reform that shows how efficient t...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
09 Feb 17 NewsToday in Delhi: India to pitch global services accord to WTO chief Azevedo (The Hindu)
India will make a presentation on Thursday to WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo and India...
India to pitch global services accord to WTO chief Azevêdo
09 Feb 17 NewsIndia was expected to make a presentation on Thursday to World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Roberto Azevêdo and India Inc. on New Delhi’s proposal for a global...
Services trade in Africa
08 Feb 17 PublicationsThis working paper examines the African services trade to set a background for assessing the main issues for consideration in the current Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotia...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
03 Feb 17 NewsA tiny slice of services trade in a globalised world: introducing tralac’s latest capacity-building initiative
tralac is currently in the process of launching its first online c...
Azevêdo underscores growing importance of services in world trade
03 Feb 17 NewsSpeaking at the launch at the WTO of the “Research Handbook on Trade in Services” published by Edward Elgar Press on 26 January, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo highlight...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
01 Feb 17 NewsStarting today, in Mauritius: ‘Cross-border banking and regulatory reforms: implications for Africa from international experience’
Call for papers: ‘Public economics for dev...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
30 Jan 17 NewsA Daily Nation primer for today’s AU Heads of State Summit: The schedule and what to expect in Addis Ababa
Assembly of Heads of State: remarks by Chairperson of the African Unio...
Leveraging services and digital potential for inclusive economic growth
30 Jan 17 NewsThe development of well-functioning and efficient services sectors is crucial to achieving structural transformation and sustainable and inclusive growth in LDCs and LICs.
Further...
A tiny slice of services trade in a globalised world
25 Jan 17 DiscussionAshly Hope, tralac Research Advisor, introduces tralac’s latest capacity-building initiative
Today’s discussion is a slight diversion from our usual policy issues to reflect o...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
17 Jan 17 NewsFeatured tweet, @UKenyatta: Kenya and Mauritius have agreed to make our two countries the financial and trade hubs for Africa
Diarise: the German-African Business Summit will be h...
Technology and innovation
04 Jan 17 ThemesInnovation and new technologies are key drivers of economic growth in today’s globalised economy. Promoting innovation has thus become a critical regional and national policy obj...
Services, trade facilitation and customs
04 Jan 17 ThemesThe new realities of the global trading system and improved services trade has made logistics and other trade facilitation measures increasingly important in regional and integrati...
Continental Wide Service Liberalization within Africa
23 Nov 16 PublicationsFollowing on from their initial tralac Trade Brief “Service Liberalization within Africa – Trying to Quantify the Potential Impact”, the authors utilize the model, database a...
Designing Sector Development Strategies and Regulatory Frameworks for the CFTA
23 Nov 16 DiscussionJB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, comments on the trade in services negotiating agenda under the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA)
In 2011, African Union (AU) Members embarked ...
Movement of Service Providers in the EAC: Legal Analysis
10 Nov 16 PublicationsThe East African Community (EAC) achieved a common market in 2009 when the Heads of States and Governments signed the Common Market Protocol (CMP). It became effective in July 2010...
How can trade policy be used to transform African livelihoods?
24 Oct 16 NewsHow can African countries and the international community overcome the existing challenges to building the poverty-reducing trade needed to meet the poverty-related Sustainable Dev...
Industrial development – why invest in financial sector development?
20 Oct 16 DiscussionAshly Hope, tralac Research Advisor, comments on the importance of investment in financial sector development for successful industrialisation in the 21st century
Industrialisatio...