'Since the Chinese economy has taken off and it has increasingly looked to Africa to provide raw materials, the World Bank and IMF have been confronted with the question of how to respond. Recent statements by the institutions have shown that these responses are careful and at times contradictory.'

Vietnam has ousted India from its three-year reign as the most attractive emerging market destination for retail investment, according to a study by AT Kearney.

Last-ditch talks to salvage a deal in the seven-year Doha round of global trade negotiations broke down dramatically in Geneva last night, after India, China and the US fell out over measures to protect poor farmers.

As recriminations began, the head of World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, warned that the wrangling among the organisation's leading members had allowed a package worth more than $130bn (£65bn) a year in tariff savings to 'slip through their fingers'.

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Arguments for regulation of SWF investment raise fears that protectionism could hinder capital flows.

On July 9, the G8 Summit, an annual meeting attended by eight world leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, concluded in Hokkaido Toyako. The meeting addressed key global issues including: global health, climate change, global food security, good governance and reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The G8 renewed their commitment to support development goals including: global health issues. They agreed to establish a repor more...

In getting to grips with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and development indicators, South Africa's progress report in relation to the rest of its African neighbours has been released.

In the Africa Development Indicators 2007 report released by the World Bank on Wednesday, it was suggested that improving the well-being of Africans will require better economic policy and greater growth performance.

Over the past three and a half years, Egypt has become a significant investment destination. This year, it topped the UNCTAD ranking for FDI attraction in Africa, came out “Top Reformer” in the World Bank Doing Business Report 2008, and became the first Arab and African country to join the OECD Investment Declaration.

The Mozal aluminium plant is a symbol of Mozambique's red-hot economy, touted as a symbol of the investor-friendly environment that led the Wall Street Journal to declare the country "an African success story.”

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda told an international forum held here recently that human capital flight out of Africa is alarming.

African economies should increase their share of global trade to three per cent to enable them to generate $70 billion additional export revenues.