In many developing countries, regional integration is increasingly being acknowledged as a strategy for addressing development issues. Motives for regional integration include economic, social and political interests. In Africa, regional integration is especially viewed as a response to the difficulties faced by a continent with many small national markets and many landlocked countries. As a […]
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is by far the largest and most stable source of capital for developing countries. However, the distribution of FDI has been uneven across different regions and countries.
Since 1992, China has attracted the largest proportion of FDI, the impact of which cannot be underestimated despite some of it being round trip. The […]
Value chains have changed the world and are rapidly changing and evolving due to the increasing rate of technology innovation, communication technology, and computer integrated technology. UNCTAD defines a global/regional value chain as, ‘the sequence of all functional activities required in the process of value creation involving more than one country’.
Regional and Global value chain […]
When you’ve been working in development for a long time, you can easily become a little pessimistic about the state of the world. It could seem as if your actions are in vain especially when looking at all these developmental issues in their entirety. Yet, the old saying goes ‘you eat an elephant one bite at […]
I have worked in the Inclusive Business field for around four years now in Malawi, so when I was asked to write a blog on empowering women through Inclusive Business I thought I would be able to find some practical examples from my experience to draw on. I was surprised to find that between myself […]
Project Name: Malawi’s National Export Strategy
Client: Ministry of Industry and Trade
Location: Malawi
Time Span:
2011-2012: Drafting of the NES, supported by the UNDP
2013-2018: Support of implementation by providing Long Term Technical Assistance through TIPSWAp, supported by the European Union Delegation to Malawi
The Government of Malawi (GoM) re-launched the National Export Strategy (NES) process in 2011 to address […]
Project Name: Regional Trade Facilitation Programme
Donor: DFID
Location: SADC and COMESA regions
Time Span: 2003 – 2009
Between 2003 and 2009 Imani Development was responsible for implementation of DFID’s Regional Trade Facilitation Programme (RTFP) in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA). At the time, this was DFID’s flagship regional trade and integration project worldwide, with a total budget of […]
