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COMMONWEALTH BLOG - Issues, Insights, & Innovation
African leaders to harness the potential of agriculture in promoting economic growth
Over the last decade, stakeholders in Africa’s agricultural sector have laid the foundations for a renaissance in agriculture across the...

RCS Ottawa
Sep 5, 2016


Southern Africa Youth launch business alliance
For most youth-owned businesses in the Commonwealth Southern African community, access to finance, a united voice to seek support...

RCS Ottawa
Sep 5, 2016


Mumbai: Taxi, autorickshaw drivers strike against Uber
Taxi and autorickshaw drivers under Jai Bhagwan Taxi Rickshaw Sanghatana on Wednesday announced they would go on indefinite strike from...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 29, 2016
Africa’s Making New Apps for Old Phones to Tap Google Blind Spot
Africa’s startups are seizing an opportunity they say Google and Apple Inc. have missed -- making apps for non-smartphones. In a region...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 21, 2016


The surprising stumbling block to technological progress: human rights
The fourth industrial revolution is upon us. The combination of enhanced computational power and extensive digital connectivity is...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 21, 2016


Japan’s economic growth model and advanced technology informs its development partnerships in Africa
This August’s sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Nairobi, Kenya will facilitate high-level discussions...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 20, 2016
Restricting Correspondent Banking Relationships
Disconnecting from Global Finance, The Commonwelath report proposes solutions to the trend of financial institutions terminating or...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 16, 2016


Sterling steadies near three-year low vs. euro, eyes on post-Brexit data
Currency traders kept the pressure on sterling on Monday at the start of a week packed full of the first round of hard national data on...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 16, 2016


British Pound To Euro, US Dollar Exchange Rates Lifted As Today's CPI Prints At Best In 20 Month
Today's widely anticipated UK CPI release has seen the GBP/EUR, GBP/USD briefly bounce off historic lows. See today's update below. The...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 16, 2016


Commonwealth calls for collaboration on ‘detrimental’ declines in banking relationships
Passions ran high as money transfer businesses and smaller financial institutions met yesterday at the Commonwealth Secretariat to...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 14, 2016
Commonwealth Trade Express: International Transit Scheme to Improve Trading Environment across the E
By reducing the time and costs of trading, integrated transit mechanisms are important for boosting trade and enhancing competitiveness...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 11, 2016
Commonwealth roundtable to focus on international tax concerns
Small Commonwealth countries and jurisdictions that offer financial services to overseas clients will meet next week to consider a...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 11, 2016
Commonwealth Secretariat to bear cost for operation of Commonwealth SME Association for the first ye
New Delhi, June 30 (KNN) Soon after the launch of India’s first Commonwealth SME Association with link India’s MSMEs with the suppliers...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 11, 2016
Fostering Green Economies through Trade, Investment and Innovation - UNCTAD 14 Round Table
The greening of economies will require a transformation of consumption and production patterns. There is an urgent need to find new ways...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 10, 2016
The surprisingly simple economic case for giving refugees cash, not stuff
Andrew Harper has a staff of 600, a budget of more than $280 million,and an office littered with color-coded maps marked by hand-drawn...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 9, 2016
The Bank of England just cut interest rates after seven years of preparing for a hike
Since the global financial crisis, the Bank of England has been biding its time, laying the groundwork to hike interest rates once the...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 9, 2016
Meet 22 women entrepreneurs redefining African luxury
Over the past decade, China with its growing new consumer class has represented an exciting and vast new marketing opportunity for luxury...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 7, 2016
Uber will finally face a rival in Africa it won’t be able to beat so easily
In Africa, local taxi companies and startups have been working hard to compete with Uber but the ride hailing company has managed to...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 7, 2016
University degrees are not the answer for Africa’s unemployed youth
Employers throw out degrees Companies like Ernst & Young, PWC, and Penguin have already made bold steps in that direction, doing away...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 7, 2016
Quartz Africa Innovators 2016 list
We have a bias towards stories of African innovation in the sense of big ideas, creative vision, entrepreneurship and homegrown, globally...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 7, 2016
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