August 26, 2020//-Regional economic and political integration — allowing the free movement of goods, services, people and capital between national markets as well as forming federations — have been on Africa’s agenda since independence in the 1960s.
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Taxing the Digital Economy: COVID-19 Heightens Need to Expand Resource Mobilization Base
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, August 26, 2020/ — The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore, the focus on the rapidly growing shift to a digitalised economy across the globe.
Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative Invests In over 15,000 Women-led Businesses
Washington DC, U.S, August 21, 2020 – The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) announced today its third funding allocation comprising $49.3 Million – expected to benefit over 15,000 women-led businesses and mobilize about $350 million of additional public and private sector resources.
Why Biden or Trump Must Urgently Secure Stable Relations with China
August 21, 2020//-Joe Biden or Donald Trump – whoever is the President of the United States come November, their ultimate challenge is to secure “stable relations” with China which would win an all-out trade war, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations.
Lack of Human Capital is Holding Back Latin America’s Growth
August 21, 2020//-In 1990, Latin America’s average GDP per capita was a little over a quarter of the United States’ income level, while emerging and developing Asian countries’ GDP per capita was only 5 percent.
Regional Integration as a Tool for Wealth Creation in Africa
August 20, 2020//-The COVID-19 pandemic and its health and economic impacts has forced a global rethink of the current multilateral framework and what it means for the future. For Africa, COVID-19 has served as a wake-up call in many ways.
Ghana’s New Infectious Disease Centre Receives IFC’s Green Building Certification
Accra, Ghana, August 20, 2020 – IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced that the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre, built in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been certified by the IFC Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE) green building program.
The Foreign Aid Game is Changing: These Are the Opportunities for Africa
Welcoming Senegal’s President Macky Sall at Sochi International Airport before the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit. Photo by Dmitry Feoktistov\TASS via Getty Images Dan Banik, University of Oslo and Nikolai Hegertun, University of Oslo August 20, 2020//-There are growing signs that the aid relationship between the Global South and the Global North is changing fast.
World Bank Study: 62% of jobs in Togo Affected by Covid-19
Lomé, Togo, August 18, 2020//- Since the beginning of March, Togo has been facing the Coronavirus pandemic like other countries elsewhere. Since then, the authorities have taken measures to combat this terrible disease.
It Is Historic! Ghana President Hands-Over AfCFTA Secretariat To AU Commission
Accra, August 17, 2020//-Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, today commissioned and handed over the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area ( AfCFTA) to the African Union (AU) Commission, at a brief ceremony, at the Africa Trade House, on Monday, 17 August 2020.