Zimbabwe’s services exports are dominated by tourism and transport; largely missing are higher value services such as telecommunications, finance, and business process outsourcing and should be…

If imports increase competition for Egypt’s workers, trade agreements seem to have a very limited potential for explaining Egypt’s labor-market outcomes.

Some of the Horn’s countries are among Africa’s poorest. The problems are daunting, but the region’s governments are taking bold steps to tackle them. They have launched the Horn of Africa…

A single digital market across Africa will lower barriers to trade and communication. It will make the internet faster and more accessible. Content and services, hosted on local data centers, will…

To discuss Intra-African trade, one must consider its informality, the small size of the traders, and the important role of women. Yet women traders face challenges in the form of tariff and non-…

Although there is a positive employment response to export expansion, it does not occur at a large enough scale to be felt at the macroeconomic level. Egypt seems to be an exception to the…

The Pink Sheet is a monthly report that monitors commodity price movements.

Trade is still contributing to recovery and growth. Countries and firms integrated into global value chains have been more resilient to shocks and have recovered faster, and trade in services…

For the first time, African countries will be able to undertake a sector- and measure-specific dialogue with their stakeholders and examine whether there are less trade-distortive ways to pursue…

On February 23rd, 2023, the World Bank and the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs for Indonesia, jointly launched the dataset on non-tariff measures (NTMs) in Jakarta.