The meeting proposed a number of interventions to accelerate and unlock benefits from the FTA and CU and deepen regional integration in Southern Africa. These have been summarized in a policy statement outlining a set of ...

"Policies for the development of shipping and the reduction of maritime transport costs, and the evolution of a code of conduct for the liner conference system"

This document is the result of an intensive grappling with problems of the economic reconstruction of the former communist standard models for the states of Europe. The tasks which these countries are facing are historic ...

Le présent document a pour objectif majeur d'examiner la question maitresse de la coordination et de l'harmonisation des activités des CER en vue de la libéralisation des échanges commerciaux, s'agissant notamment des ...

Africa’s trade constitutes about three per cent of global trade. Exports are largely agricultural and unprocessed commodities from particularly resource-rich countries. Agriculture, mining and oil constitute more than 80 ...

The Second United Nations Development Decade therefore opened with a serious worsening in the terms of trade of the region. There is reason to fear that the effect of the strong inflationary trend in developed market economy ...

This brief note highlights the contribution of chambers of commerce and industry 1/ can make in promoting Africa's trade, especially trade with other regions from the South. The note is presented in three chapters. In ...

The Technical Committee Meeting of the First Conference of African Ministers responsible for Trade, Regional Cooperation, Integration and Tourism was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from to 13 February, 1996. The meeting was ...

The 2001 African Statistical Yearbook presents data arranged on a country basis for 14 African members States. This publication which constitutes the fourth part of Volume II covers the fourteen countries in East Africa. ...

The biggest constraint facing developing countries in their economic and social development is the shortage of foreign exchange. Falling receipts from exports of traditional commodities and the rising burden of external ...