November 09, 2010
Africa: Strategic Choices for Education Reform
The Joint Partnership for Africa (JPA), in collaboration with the World Bank Institute (WBI), is organizing a course on strategic choices for education reform in Tunis, Tunisia… Read more »
Africa: AfDB Launches African Carbon Support Project
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and Carbon Limits last week in Tunis, launched the African Carbon Support Project (ACSP), designed to build the capacity of African entities in… Read more »
November 08, 2010
Africa: Counting on Changing Mindsets and Financial Resources to Promote Sustainable Development
Africa's development challenges can no longer be reduced to financial issues, but rather to a change in development paradigms which call for a voluntary mindset change with regard… Read more »
November 05, 2010
Africa: Solar Energy Has a Bright Future
While hydropower remains the main developed renewable energy resource in the world, solar energy is becoming more and more competitive in the short-term, said Pétronille… Read more »
Africa: Mozambique Shares Best Practice
One of the highlights of this week's All-Africa Energy Week conference in Maputo was the presentation of best practices in Mozambique, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia and Uganda. Read more »
Africa: Infrastructure And Regional Integration to "Regenerate" African Energy Sector
Infrastructure and regional integration are the main pillars on which Africa's quality energy programmes will be based, according to experts attending the All Africa Energy Week… Read more »
Africa: State Reform is Key to Our Development, Says Cape Verde's Finance Minister
Government reforms explain the success of Cape Verdean government development efforts, says the country's finance minister, Cristina Duarte. Read more »
November 04, 2010
Africa: Workshop On AfDB Regional Integration Strategy Paper for Eastern Africa in Nairobi
An African Development Bank (AfDB) Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP) for Eastern Africa will be validated at a workshop scheduled to take place on 11 November in Nairobi,… Read more »
November 05, 2010
Africa: Second Regional Meeting On Aid Effectiveness - Participants Reactions
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November 04, 2010
Africa: Accountability is Key to Successful Development Programmes
Mutual accountability and general participation are essential for successful development programmes, delegates at the second Regional Meeting on Aid Effectiveness said on Thursday,… Read more »
Africa: Africa Should Reduce Aid-Dependency And Explore Alternative Sources of Development Finance - AfDB President Kaberuka
Africa must reduce aid-dependency and foster new alternative sources of development finance, the African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, has said. Read more »
November 06, 2010
Africa: Aid Effectiveness Conference - Africa's Future Lies in Self-Reliance
Distinguished delegates drawn from African governments, international organizations, parliaments and civil society agreed on Friday, 5 November 2010 in Tunis that the time had come… Read more »
November 04, 2010
Africa: AfDB to Implement US.$ 84.5 Million Food Security Support for Ethiopia and Niger
The Global Agriculture and Food Security Fund (GAFSP) Steering Committee approved on, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 in Washington D.C., a USD 97-million grant allocations to three… Read more »
Africa: Food Security Support for Niger and Ethiopia
The Global Agriculture and Food Security Fund (GAFSP) Steering Committee approved on, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 in Washington D.C., a USD 97-million grant allocations to three… Read more »
Africa: AfDB Recruitment Mission Heads to Japan, China And Korea
Korea: We are inviting candidates to visit our career event from 1 - 3 December 2010 in Seoul. South Africa: We are inviting candidates to visit our career event on November 25,… Read more »
Africa: Africa Should Reduce Aid Dependency - AfDB President
Africa must reduce aid-dependency and foster new alternative sources of development finance, the African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, has said. Read more »
November 03, 2010
Africa: First Africa Energy Week Highlights Importance of Clean Energy
The first All-Africa Energy Week got underway in Maputo, Mozambique, this week with emphasis on the importance of clean energy for sustainable development. Read more »
November 02, 2010
Africa: AfDB-Recruitment Mission in Japan, China and Korea
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Africa: "Financing Africa - Through the Crisis And Beyond" - Consultation Workshop
The impact of the financial crisis and the state of financial sector development in North Africa - these were the topics that Issa Faye of the African Development Bank's research… Read more »
November 01, 2010
Africa: Second Regional Meeting On Aid Effectiveness to Promote New Vision for Development
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will host the Second Regional Meeting on Aid Effectiveness, South-South Cooperation and Capacity Development, in Tunis from 4-5 November… Read more »
Africa: Interview with Kwaku Owusu-Baah - "Governments' And Development Agencies' Neglect of African Agriculture is Unacceptable"
The Director of Economic Studies of the Inter-African Coffee Organization (IACO), Kwaku Owusu-Baah, was one of the prominent participants at the just-concluded fifth African… Read more »
October 29, 2010
Africa: African Economic Conference - AfDB Staff Publish Research Results On Human Capital
Can human capital contribute to protecting workers in the event of external shocks? Case study of South Africa during the 2008-2009 crisis. Read more »
Africa: Nigerian Central Bank Governor Calls for Greater Industrialization On the Continent
The Nigerian Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, has urged Africans to pursue greater industrialization as there is no region that can attain greatness without a solid industrial… Read more »
Africa: African Economic Conference Ends in Tunis With Calls for Internal Resource Mobilization
The fifth African Economic Conference designed to bring policy-makers, researchers, academics and development experts ended on Friday, October 29, 2010, after intense discussions… Read more »
Africa: AfDB Supports Aid for Trade Initiative in Central Africa
Infrastructure constraints and ineffective tools for trade facilitation, such as customs services and standards that make the movement of goods on the continent expensive, are some… Read more »
