Intra-Africa trade has the potential to transform the continent: This is what governments can do
Africa is not going to rise without it rising together. In this CNBC Africa special Ambassador Gabriel Sethloke from South Africa's Department of International ...
CNBCAfrica
Jumia Nigeria CEO Juliet Anammah on how e-commerce has transformed intra- Africa trade
Jumia Nigeria CEO Juliet Anammah says the African Continental Free Trade Agreement will foster partnerships among e-commerce firms within the continent ...
CNBCAfrica
AU looks to fast-track intra-African trade
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) is pushing ahead with projects to fast-track regional trade integration. African leaders want to increase ...
CGTN Africa
Afreximbank’s Rene Awambeng speaks on boosting intra-African trade
On the side-lines of the Arica CEO Forum CNBC Africa spoke to Rene Awambeng, Global Head of Client Relationship at Afreximbank for more intra-African ...
CNBCAfrica
AfCFTA aims to boost the proportion of intra-African trade
African leaders have officially launched the operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement at Sunday's African Union (AU) summit in ...
CGTN
Intra Africa trade & its barriers
Original Publish Date: || Thu, 09 Apr 2015 03:51:57 GMT || Joining CNBC Africa to talk more about intra Africa trade in light of the Zimbabwe's state visit is ...
CNBCAfrica
Driving inclusive growth and enhancing intra-african trade through service sector development
The development of services sectors in least developed countries (LDCs) has the potential to strongly support the achievement of sustainable development ...
ICTSD
Africa Inc: Challenges and opportunities in developing regional trade
Intra-Africa trade ranks among the lowest in the world, with less than 20% of what's produced in the region, staying on the continent. Although upping that trading ...
Business Day TV
Re-examining trade with Africa under the Continental Free Trade Agreement - Part 1
On Friday, July 13, Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission H.E. Quartey Thomas Kwesi joined the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative David M.
Brookings Institution
The role of remittances in a broader development context | Leon Isaacs | TEDxBonn
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In his TEDx talk, Leon Isaacs talks about the importance of ...
TEDx Talks
How AfCFTA will boost intra-Africa trade
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to increase intra-African trade by 52 per cent by 2022. To do this, a clear private-public mix is ...
CNBCAfrica
Let Africa Trade With Africa
In Africa, non-tariff trade barriers raise transaction costs and limit the movement of goods, services, people and capital across borders. To further development ...
World Bank
Rwanda’s port – creating a hub for Intra-African trade
One of the largest in-land ports in Africa, Kigali Logistics Platform, is working towards a different kind of management system to create a faster and more efficient ...
euronews (in English)
Intra-African payments systems: What the future holds?
Almost 20 per cent of all cross border commercial payments sent by African banks now remain in the continent. Intra-African clearing of payments increased to ...
CNBCAfrica
Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AcFTA): challenges & opportunities
In this discussion we looked at the AcFTA, the challenges that would face the AcFTA & opportunities. The next discussion on AcFTA will be on 8th October 2020.
Africa iShare
World Bank head calls for increased intra-African trade to foster growth
The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, has called on African countries to foster economic integration by breaking down the various barriers that hinder ...
africanews
Launch of UNCTAD's Economic Development in Africa Report 2017 - Press Conference (5 July 2017)
Press briefing on United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's Economic Development in Africa Report for 2017. Speaker: Chantal Line Carpentier, ...
United Nations
Can Africa unlock its potential?
Africa is turning the page on 50 years of over-reliance on Western economies, thanks to strengthening trade and investment links with emerging countries like ...
INSEAD
AFRICA to become World's largest trading bloc: Game-changer or a step too soon?
The African Union has began work on a monumental free trade deal to unite all 55 African countries within a single market. But will underlying issues conspire ...
NewAfrica
Inside Story - Is the African Union still needed?
African heads of state meet for another summit, while the continent's problems only grow.Presenter: Sami Zeidan Guests: Michael Amoah - research associate ...
Al Jazeera English
How will a global trade war affect Africa? | Counting the Cost
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its growth outlook for sub-Saharan Africa in 2019, citing a recovery in Nigeria. Africa's most populous ...
Al Jazeera English
Rise of intra-regional trade in Asia
Karel Eloot, Senior Partner of McKinsey's Shanghai office and co-author of the Future of Asia, discusses the rise of intra-regional trade and network flows in Asia, ...
McKinsey & Company
Africa 2016 - Rethinking Agriculture
http://www.weforum.org/ How can innovative approaches drive sustainable and climate-smart food systems? Dimensions to be addressed: - Enabling ...
World Economic Forum
Africa 2016 - Press Conference: How can Africa develop healthcare systems that are both efficient
http://www.weforum.org/ Africa bears 24% of global disease burden yet represents less than 1% of global health expenditure. Experts from the public and private ...
World Economic Forum
Investing in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Africa is facing a looming debt crisis, and yet it also needs $1 trillion per year to meet its SDG funding requirements. How can its economies mobilize capital and ...
World Economic Forum
AFRICA AFTER COVID-19: CAN THE ECONOMY RECOVER?
Sub-Saharan Africa, home to over 1 billion people, has so far defied predictions of a devastating Covid-19 epidemic. Though the official number of infections is ...
Bruegel
New technologies and food safety
Speakers in this video: Frank Yiannas, US Food and Drug Administration Anne Bucher, EC Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety Elizabeth Murugi ...
World Trade Organization
Kenyans want trade not aid
Despite Africa's need for aid, CNN's David McKenzie finds that most Kenyans want the U.S. president to focus on trade.
CNN
Africa - 2016 Realizing Africa as One Market
http://www.weforum.org/ The African Union has committed to setting up the Continental Free Trade Area by 2017. Given that Africa accounts for 3% of global ...
World Economic Forum
Afreximbank Debate: Discusses response of trade finance institutions to challenges impacting trade
CNBC Africa's Bronwyn Nielsen engages a high-level panel at the 25th Annual Meetings of the Africa Export-Import Bank in Abuja joined by expert guests Louis ...
CNBCAfrica
#IATF2018 #tradewithafrica Ms. Awani of Afreximbank discussing Intra-African Trade
Nazaru - Trade with Africa Network
Trade, Investment, and Entrepreneurship in North Africa
Although much potential exists to expand foreign direct investment and develop competitive markets and a dynamic private sector, a major obstacle for mutual ...
Chatham House
Standard Chartered Africa Summit 2019: Keynote Address By Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi: Sec Gen, UNCTAD
Keynote address by Dr. Kituyi on The Transformative Global Growth Engine of the Future.
Standard Chartered Bank
Who’s Getting Globalized? The Size and Implications of Intranational Trade Costs
How large are barriers that separate consumers in remote locations of developing countries from global markets? What do such barriers imply for the ...
Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago - BFI
Youth Webinar to commemorate Africa Integration Day, 20201
African Union
The impact of Covid-19 in South Africa | COVID-19 Series | LBS
How is the crisis impacting the South African economy and how can business leaders be part of the solution to the coronavirus crisis? Rajesh Chandy was ...
London Business School
The future of work in Africa: Opportunities and challenges of digital technologies - Part 2
On Thursday, October 17, the Global Economy and Development Program's Africa Growth Initiative hosted a discussion on how African policymakers can ...
Brookings Institution
Regional Integration in Africa
How can West African nations increase utilization of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act? George Boateng believes that an appropriate policy framework that ...
WoodrowWilsonCenter
A framework for comparing NEPAD and the Lagos Plan of Action - Prof Thandika Mkandawire
tmali lnstitute
Supporting Africa agribusiness and industrialisation, Mariam Yinusa, Financial Economist, AfDB
The Brussels Development Briefing n. 58 on “Africa's Agriculture Trade in a changing environment” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, ...
Brussels Development Briefings
Legal Challenges in African Development
Over the past decade a number of African countries have made important strides in improving their economies. Higher rates of economic growth are contributing ...
Mercatus Center
SADC Cross Border Trade Challenges with Prega Ramsamy
(www.abndigital.com) Inefficient cross border customs procedures are costing the Southern African region around $48 million per year. That's according to ...
CNBCAfrica