Lynette Gitonga

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Africa is confronted with many challenges to economic development and efforts have been made to find and implement solutions which are now bearing fruit. I highlight below a small fraction of the many proposals, successes and practical solutions being implemented.   

Africa-China Engagement
World Bank Solutions
Africa Competitiveness
Audio Visual Services
African Growth and Opportunity Act
Africa Power Supply
Maritime Transport
Export Promotion
World Economic Forum Africa
Nile Basin Initiative
Doing Business


Institutions
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Technoserve
Business Action for Africa
One International
Clinton Global Initiative 
Coca Cola Foundation 
USAID AGCI  
Millennium Challenge Corporation
SAIBL
DFID
Emerging Africa Fund
Investment Climate Facility Africa
BUSAC
Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund
Making Finance Work for Africa
GTZ
Practical Action
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All Africa News: Economy, Business and Finance

  • Uganda: Economists Raise Eyebrows As Debt Repayments Dominate Q1 Budget Spending
  • Zimbabwe: Small-Scale Miners Demand Simpler Formalisation, Raise Red Flags Over New Mines Bill
  • Uganda: Bujagali Energy Defends 14-Year Tax Waiver Amid Growing Public Scrutiny
  • Tanzania: The Sea Is the Limit, but Not for Tanzanians
  • Liberia: Public Works Engineer Commends Arcelormittal Liberia for Margibi Road Rehabilitation

Online TV

  • Headlines Africa
  • TED

Monitoring Trade Barriers

  • CIA Country Reports
  • COMESA-EAC-SADC NTB Database
  • Canadian Database of Trade Barriers
  • EAC Trade Barriers Monitor
  • EU Market Access database
  • European Services Forum
  • Japanese Report on Trade Compliance
  • US Coalition of Services Industries
  • US National Trade Estimate
  • USTR Foreign Trade Barriers
  • WTO GATS National Schedules
  • WTO Trade Policy Reviews

Insitutional Links

  • AEO Country Profiles
  • AfDB
  • Africa-EU
  • African Growth Initiative
  • AGOA
  • Brookings Institute SSA
  • BUSA
  • Carnegie- Africa
  • COMESA
  • Data & Statistics
  • EA Trade Hub
  • EABC
  • EAC
  • EU Export
  • EU MA Database
  • ICTSD
  • ILEAP
  • IMF
  • International Trade Administration
  • Investment Treaty Arbitration
  • ITC
  • SACU
  • SADC
  • SAIIA
  • TradeMark EA
  • Tralac
  • TRAPCA
  • UNCTAD
  • UNDP
  • UNECA
  • UNIDO
  • USAID
  • USITC
  • USTR
  • WB Services
  • World Bank Africa
  • World Economic Forum
  • WorldBank Trade
  • WTO

Data Sources

  • AEO
  • Data Mapper
  • Data Sources
  • EU
  • ITC
  • ITIP
  • OECD
  • UN COMTRADE
  • US
  • WB ADI
  • WB GPTAD
  • WB ODI
  • WTI
  • WTO

Reuters: Investing News

  • South African rand falls to 3-month low, stocks down - 2/7/2020
  • Sudan dissolves central bank board, governor remains - 2/7/2020
  • South Africa's rand falls as business confidence weakens - 2/7/2020
  • Nigeria creates committee to tackle issues that led to U.S. visa ban - presidency - 2/1/2020
  • Militants kill dozens in east Congo as attacks on civilians intensify - 2/1/2020

Other Links

  • Africa International Legal Awareness
  • Africa Progress Panel
  • African Development Bank
  • American Society of International Law
  • Belfer Center Harvard University
  • COMESA Court of Justice
  • Centre for Economic Policy Research
  • Chatham House Africa
  • Curtis Research
  • EA Law Society
  • EAC Court of Justice
  • EALA
  • ECDPM
  • European Court of Justice
  • Eyes on Trade
  • Harvard Business Review
  • SACU Tribunal
  • SADC Tribunal
  • Trade & Environment Nexus
  • Trade Invest Africa
  • Trade Law Guide
  • WTI Advisors
  • WTO Dispute Settlement
  • World Trade Law

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Current Reading List

  • India Services Sector Liberalisation
  • EPAs and WTO Compatibility: A Development Perspective (South Centre 2010)
  • Still Our Interest (Commission for Africa 2010 Report)
  • World Investment Report 2010 ( UNCTAD)
  • World Trade Report 2010 (Trade in Natural Resources)
  • Investing Across Borders (World Bank)

Other Publications

  • US Services Trends 2010 (USITC)
  • EU vs. US FTAs and Bilateral Investment Treaties
  • GATS Negotiations on Domestic Regulations

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