Dec. 27, 2011 Japan has been advancing a series of trade talks recently to hammer out bilateral or regional free-trade agreements because it sees high-level economic partnerships as the key to revitalizing its stagnant economy. While announcing last month its plan to join multilateral talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a U.S.-led free-trade initiative, this [...]
Global Harvest Initiative – Removing Barriers to Global and Regional Trade in Agriculture
The Global Harvest Initiative released the second in a series of five issue briefs “outlining policies to sustainably increase the rate of agricultural productivity and address hunger and food security in anticipation of a global population surge to over 9 billion people by 2050.” Their press release and links are below: Press Release [...]
‘Regional trade will lift Africa’
News 24 September 18, 2009News 24 September 18, 2009 Evan Pickworth www.news24.com Johannesburg – Africa needs to urgently improve its co-operation across the continent as it needs two to three decades of rapid growth to make a substantial dent in the level of poverty, said Minister in the Presidency for National Planning, Trevor Manuel, on [...]