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First Africa eCommerce Week closes with UNCTAD issuing the Nairobi Manifesto on the Digital Economy and Inclusive Development in Africa.

Written byTim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, and Emeritus Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London

Government officials, donors and partners meet to consider UNCTAD's appraisal of how e-commerce can boost Myanmar's economy and the next steps forward.

Written byJuliet Anammah, CEO Jumia Nigeria

Written byMukhisa Kituyi is Secretary-General of UNCTAD

Written byDani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Representatives of West African countries are gathering in Burkina Faso to consider their e-commerce future and what needs to be done to realise it.

When Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in 2008, it brought the international financial system to the edge of collapse. Ten years later, the global economy has recovered but is it really "safer, simpler and fairer"?

Speaking at a G20 ministers' meeting on digital economic transformation, UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi urges governments to "walk the talk" for developing countries.

Frontier technologies are driving the fastest pace of change ever seen. Harnessing their power to achieve sustainable development is critical, but it has to be done right.