East Africa’s first fund that focuses on investing in creative businesses across the region
Trade Forum
The in-depth digital knowledge platform of the International Trade Centre explores export development and trade issues in developing and least developed countries. The contributions focus on trade promotion and export development as part of the International Trade Centre’s technical cooperation programme with developing countries and economies in transition.
The current climate for small business calls for a situation of “adapt or die”. The challenge is, however, that many are not equipped to adapt, and therefore “die”.
Small businesses are key to supporting a resilient, sustainable and inclusive economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis
How micro entrepreneurs circumvent the on-going challenges of trading across borders
Small businesses are an important channel for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, playing a vital role in reducing poverty and income inequality
Over the last 75 years, multilateralism has been a powerful driver and pillar of global integration, peace, and prosperity. However, recent disaffection with globalization and with existing forms of global governance threatens the foundations of the rules-based multilateral order. Growing political...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse economic impact on Africa, with sub-Saharan Africa experiencing its first recession in 25 years. The continent’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to decline from about 3% in 2019 to -2% to -5% in 2020, with the region’s major sources of revenue...
Before 2020, the closest our species came to a truly shared experience was the landing of the first human being on the moon. That changed, and in a horribly negative way with COVID-19. In early April, more than half of the global population was under some sort of lockdown. People everywhere feared...
This year we are all celebrating both the 75th anniversary of the UN and the 25th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Charter of the United Nations was signed 1945 at the San Francisco Conference. Delegates from 50 states drafted it with the aim of maintaining...
How international organizations are vital to building back better
The greatest limiting factor in business is opportunity
At the heart of their ecosystem, chambers are ideal business supporters in a world of crisis