Quarterly Newsletter - March 2021

We are pleased to share our latest newsletter, which includes our most recent articles, CEO Insights and news on our latest projects implemented. We are delighted to announce that to date we have been awarded more than 100 projects in 87 different countries. We also have a COVID-19 sub site on our website to inform investors and businesses on the trade-related issues that they are confronted with in today’s uncertain environment. We share updated dashboards and analytics, and lessons learned from other countries and provide business insights to better estimate the risks and impacts arising from supply chain disruptions and changes in demand across global markets. Please get in touch with us for more information and details on our work.

COVID-19 vaccines

Covid-19 has undoubtedly been the greatest public health challenge of a generation. Almost one year ago, on 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, as a pandemic. The good news though is that effective vaccines are now available and preliminary results show that the virus spread is decreasing Read more

Trade Performance

Trade Performance Dashboard provides in-depth analysis of trade performance and cross-border processes allowing users to discover trading patterns and opportunities through data on more than 200 countries, re-modelled and assembled in a powerful tool. Read more

Investment Performance

Investment Performance Dashboard allow users to analyse business indicators, investment performance, and conditions, coupled with development and performance data. The dashboards show country-wise data, with critical indices, such as FDI restrictiveness by sector, economic growth, total investment as a percentage of GDP, market capitalisation, inflation.   Read More

Sectorial Performance

Sectorial Performance Dashboard allows users to analyse business indicators, investment performance, and conditions, coupled with development and performance data. The dashboards show country-wise data, with critical indices, such as FDI restrictiveness by sector, economic growth, total investment as a percentage of GDP, market capitalisation, inflation. Read more

Current Projects

Global Projects

  • Policy Support Facility for the Implementation of EU Foreign Policy Read more
  • Technical Assistance to the ACP Group on WTO Negotiations Read more
  • Technical Assistance to the CEFTA Secretariat on Trade Facilitation Read more

Projects in Asia and Pacific

  • Trade Remedies Impact Methodology for Indonesia Read more
  • Economic Impact Assessment of the India-Bangladesh Comprehensive Partnership Agreement Read more
  • Technical Assistance on impact of COVID-19 on businesses and global value chains in Indonesia Read more
  • Technical Cooperation and Economic Integration with Cambodia and ASEAN Read more 

Projects in Africa

  • Trade in Services, E-Commerce and Digital Trade in Africa Read more
  • Review on Barriers to Services Trade and Investment in Mauritius Read more
  • Support to implement the Economic Partnership Agreement in Ghana  Read more
  • Improving the Business and Investment Climate in Mauritius Read more
  • AfCFTA Trade Implementation Strategies for Small Islands States Read more
  • Evaluation of Indian Trade and Investment for Africa programme (SITA) Read more
  • COVID-19 Recovery Platform for Mauritius Read more
  • E-Payment Blueprint in Africa Read more
  • Training in Data Analysis for the Botswana Trade Commission Read more

  • Analytical Paper on LDC graduation for the WTO Read more Read more

  • Technical Assistance to AfCFTA Member States in future e-commerce policies Read more
  • Study on the expected effect of Angola’s Accession to SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
  • Value chain studies across 16 countries in Africa for regional trade in agro-processing Read more
  • Six Export Guides on Opportunities for Botswana Read more

Latest News

We continue to update our COVID19 platform, dashboards, research and business impact sections:

 

COVID-19 Cases Dashboards: gathers up-to-date information on the number of active cases, recovered cases and deaths of COVID-19 by country worldwide. The dashboard shows the progression over the previous seven days. Read more 

 

Africa COVID-19 Market Exposure Dashboard: gathers latest market exposures to the COVID-19 pandemic of Africa’s top export markets. The dashboard assesses how vulnerable export destinations might be to an economic shock from the pandemic. Read more

 

Timeline of Announcements of Government Measures: Analyses the outcome of measures taken by Governments across the globe to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Compares timing of measures between countries and along the epidemic path. Read more

 

We carried out a 3rd survey in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact on African countries, to assess how businesses are progressing during the pandemic. The results of which will be published soon.

 

A webinar was hosted and organised in collaboration with the World Bank and the United Nations on the social implications on COVID19 in Mauritius. Read more

 

Other news

 

We welcomed our new Project Manager, Alicja Ramdhian as well as our Data Scientist, Emmanuel Ubachi, to the team.

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