The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) launched a joint one-year pilot project to collect data on informal cross-border trade along the Abidjan– Lagos corridor in the Economic Community...

2020 was marked by an unprecedented pandemic with a dramatic impact on the global economy. To deal with an unknown and highly contagious virus and protect their populations, almost all the world’s countries have adopted lockdown measures. As a result, in a matter of weeks oil has lost around...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing crisis have provided an opportunity to learn more about the African pharmaceutical industry. This report is a contribution to greater understanding of the African pharmaceutical industry and the challenges that it faces, most of which are not new but have...