The Commerce and Industry Ministry has prepared a blueprint to further improve India’s ranking in the World Bank’s ease of doing business index with a focus on six parameters, including enforcing contracts and starting a business, an official said. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the ministry, is also following reform activities in Kolkata and Bengaluru ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is recruiting interested U.S. exporters for its first 2020 trade mission, which will take place in Casablanca, Morocco, March 16-19. The mission will focus on boosting U.S. agricultural exports to all of North Africa and will include interested buyers not just from Morocco, but from Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia as well. This will be the second USDA trade mission to ...

Former chief economist of the World Bank, Justin Yifu Lin, has called on international financial institutions and donor countries to reevaluate debt sustainability to help developing countries, especially in Africa. According to Yan Wang, a senior fellow at the Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University, “The traditional model of more-developed countries in the so-called global north funneling aid to ...