#BiasharaAfrika2024#AfCFTA#Africa: 📈FDI reached $79.6 billion in 2021 🤝Intra-African investment now 5-17% of total FDI 🌟Top recipients: 🇿🇦🇪🇬🇳🇬🇲🇦🇲🇿 💰 Top investors: 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇳🇪🇺🇸🇬🇮🇳 🏢Services lead intra-African FDI Read more⤵️
Unlocking Africa's investment potential: This report by the AfCFTA Secretariat, ODI and SOAS analyses foreign direct investment (FDI) trends in Africa, offering insights for implementing the AfCFTA In...
How can #G20#GreenSqueeze@jodiekeane.bsky.social#Aid4Trade goals. Read more⤵️
New green trade measures are creating a "green squeeze" on smaller producers. This T20 policy brief calls on the G20 to take action - fostering trade-climate dialogue, supporting resilient value chain...
@ec.europa.eu's delay on EUDR is a welcome reprieve, but not a complete solution. We must use this extra time to ramp up support for LDCs and ensure they're not left behind in the transition to sustainable supply chains. Our latest blog explores key challenges LDCs face and the steps EU must take⤵️
The EU's decision to delay the Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) implementation by 12 months provides crucial time to address the challenges faced by Least Developed Countries. This window of opportunit...
China's strategic engagement with Africa is deepening. With President Xi pledging $51B at #FOCAC2024@uk.theconversation.com – is this a genuine partnership or "debt-trap diplomacy"?
Writing for The Conversation, Senior Research Fellow, Linda Calabrese, explores China's strategic motives behind its deepening ties with Africa, beyond the "debt-trap" narrative. The opinion piece exa...
#SriLanka 🇱🇰 has a new president – Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Writing for East Asia Forum, our Visiting Senior Fellow, Ganeshan Wignaraja, analyses the challenges and opportunities facing the new administration, including addressing poverty, corruption and IMF negotiations. Read more⤵️
Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s election to Sri Lanka’s presidency is a remarkable victory for a political outsider — but may not be as transformative as the country and its economy need.