Despite significant gains in poverty reduction, many people teeter on the brink of poverty, even as they move up the income ladder. Over 2.8 billion people—more than a third of the global ...

tralac’s Introductory Course on AI Technology will take place virtually. The course does not require prior coding skills and will introduce participants to the technology by covering four fundamental ...

This trade brief examines the utilisation of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in 2024. This trade agreement between the European Union (EU) on the one ...

But the transaction cost of remittances to African countries remain higher than any other region. Although costs are coming down, they are doing so slowly and it is almost certain that the 2015 United ...

Parties involved in Guinea’s giant Simandou iron-ore mine, widely regarded as the biggest current mining project in the world, expect production to start late this year. This is a considerable ...

The 2025 tralac Annual Conference is taking place 15-16 May in Nairobi, Kenya.

China and Kenya announced they had upgraded ties to a “new level” on Thursday during a meeting between President Xi Jinping and Kenyan President William Ruto in Beijing, as they both pledged to create ...

In the wake of global finance organisation the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cutting its GDP growth forecast for South Africa this year to 1% from 1.5%, and adding that it would reach a growth ...