Economic Development

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The Law and Development Institute and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law will co-host the 2025 Law and Development Conference.

March 11, 2024

BII Sells Stake in I&M Group to East Africa Growth Holding for $65 Million

Episode Seven: Featuring Chioneso Samantha Kanoyangwa and John P. Maketo discussing the 2022 Zimbabwe Coalition of Debt & Development (ZIMCODD), case against The Minister of Finance & Economic Development and the consent orders obtained in March 2023.

June 7, 2021

Call for Papers: 2021 African Economic Conference

About 2021 AEC

The 2021 edition of the African Economic Conference is jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The theme of this year's conference is "Financing Africa's Post COVID-19 Development"

The aim of this contribution is to suggest some courses of action for Latin America and the Caribbean (hereinafter, LAC) in relation to the taxation of the digital economy. For this purpose, after a brief description of the international background on direct and indirect taxation, I refer to the state of play in the LAC region, making a few preliminary considerations and presenting some generalities on the measures that have been adopted. Finally, I will share some thoughts and recommendations.

Development, particularly in developing countries, in the current context requires thinking about how multiple global crises are interlinked, their impact on development prospects, and the narrative framing needed to generate positive and progressive systemic policy change.

The brief discussions in this blog post highlight critical aspects of the contemporary dynamics of commodity dependence that challenge the optimism of the GVCD approach as espoused by multilateral development agencies and the WTO. Moreover, it raises further questions on the political economy of commodity dependency and industrial policy in SSA that deserve attention.