Tag: Women in Trade
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03 Jul 19 NewsDiarise: Next year’s 2020 Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development will take place in Addis Ababa, 18-24 March, on the theme The future of Af...
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27 Jun 19 NewsThe African Group at the WTO has circulated a statement on the Appellate Body impasse:
An extract: “In the last year, we note with alarming concern the systemic risks facing the...
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26 Jun 19 NewsThe role of rules of origin in boosting intra-African trade: a CNBC interview with Junior Davis, chief of UNCTAD’s Africa Section
AfDB voting powers, as at 31 May 2019.
Key reg...
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24 Jun 19 NewsSelected trade events now underway:
Today in Nairobi: EABC-ITC-TMEA Regional consultative workshop on AfCFTA Tariff Offers and engagement on trade in services
Tomorrow, in Johann...
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19 Jun 19 NewsStarting today, in Harare: Zimbabwe’s National Consultative Forum on the AfCFTA
AfCFTA negotiations: an important update from @TradeOfficeNG. In Abuja today (19 June) ECOWAS-15 ...
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12 Jun 19 NewsThe highlight of the opening day of the AfDB’s Annual Meetings, yesterday in Malabo, was the release of one of its flagship reports, the African Economic Outlook. An easy guide t...
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11 Jun 19 NewsThe AfDB’s 2019 Annual Meetings opened today in Malabo on the theme Regional Integration for Africa’s Economic Prosperity. AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina said the bank had inv...
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14 May 19 NewsAn explanatory video on the AfCFTA, produced by the ECA_Official Video Channel: How will it benefit us in practice?
“Honour Ghana with AfCFTA Secretariat for sacrifices made tow...
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06 May 19 News2019 Draft Joint OECD/WTO Aid for Trade at a Glance: OECD posts the abstracts for the nine chapters (pdf)
This seventh edition of the Aid for Trade at a Glance publication seeks t...
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18 Apr 19 NewsAfCFTA ratification update: Cameroon assures ECA that it will ratify Africa’s Free Trade Area Agreement
“Cameroon will ratify the AfCFTA,” the country’s Prime Minister, Jo...
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16 Apr 19 NewsAfCFTA update: The Gambia, today, deposited its instruments of ratification for the AfCFTA with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, becoming the 20th country to do so....
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05 Apr 19 Newstralac’s March 2019 newsletter is posted: the newsletter carries a comprehensive report of debates at tralac’s annual conference, convened recently in Nairobi
Diarise: The Afr...
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29 Mar 19 NewsA suite of AfCFTA updates:
Professor Benedict Oramah, Afreximbank President: 2019 Bullion Lecture, delivered earlier this week in Lagos on Leveraging the AfCFTA to B...
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28 Mar 19 NewsDiarise: SWIFT’s African Regional Conference (18-20 June, Accra) on the theme Enabling the Digital Economy
South Africa’s February 2019 trade balance will be released tomorrow...
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22 Mar 19 NewsThe 2019 Economic Report on Africa will be launched tomorrow in Marrakech (pdf)
The IMF’s forthcoming World Economic Outlook includes two analytical chapters on trade policy
To...
Launch of tralac’s Women in Trade Governance Network – Nairobi, 22 March 2019
22 Mar 19 Eventtralac launched its ‘Women in Trade Governance Network’ (subsequently renamed ‘SheGovernsTrade’) during its 2019 Annual Conference in Nairobi. The WiTG targets female profe...
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20 Mar 19 NewsThe joint trade policy review of EAC member countries began today at the WTO: download reports prepared by the EAC and WTO secretariats, advance questions
The World Travel and Tou...
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18 Mar 19 NewsUnderway, in Marrakech: Africa Regional Midterm Review Meeting of the Vienna Programme of Action for the Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024
Starting tomorr...
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14 Mar 19 NewsThe GTR AFRICA 2019 conference starts today in Cape Town. Twitter updates: #GTRAFRICA
The WTO’s 2019 Public Forum theme has been announced: Trading forward – adapting to a cha...
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08 Mar 19 NewsOur profiled International Women’s Day feature: Women are at the heart of African cities. The continent needs urban policies that empower them (CityMetric)
Growing evidence sugg...