The global financial crisis raises threats to developing economies in Africa and elsewhere as well as to those in the developed world. Writing ahead of a major international meeting on development ...

THE Doha round is on again. World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Pascal Lamy has set a date for trade ministers to meet between December 10 and 19 to try to thrash out a multilateral trade ...

South Africa says the major industrialised members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are applying double standards when it comes to their interests and those of African countries in the Doha Round ...

A TRADE economist has advised African countries to prepare solid strategies for crucial multilateral trade talks, tentatively scheduled for mid-December to conclude the Doha round.