Africa: Meet the African Development Bank Experts Moving Africa's Industrialization Agenda Forward

Industrializing Africa is one of the High 5 strategic priorities of the African Development Bank. Read more »

Africa: How Fashion Entrepreneurs Can Conquer COVID-19

The African Development Bank's Fashionomics Africa initiative on Tuesday launched its first webinar series to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry. Read more »

Egypt: The Furniture Industry Generates Jobs and Wealth in Damiette

As the early morning sun lights the roofs of Damiette, the Egyptian city's streets begin to come alive. Children are off to school, motorbikes fill the avenues, and shop doors… Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank Commissions Value Chain Study Into Jewelry Manufacturing in Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and the Republic of Guinea

The study will focus on jobs for women and youth Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank Commissions Value Chain Study Into Jewelry Manufacturing and Jobs for Women and Youth in Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and the Republic of Guinea

The African Development Bank has commissioned a study into the contribution of the jewelry manufacturing industry and its potential for job creation for women and youth in Sierra… Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank - Manufacturing Key to Boost Economic Growth and Job Creation in East Africa - Regional Economic Outlook Report

The manufacturing sector will hold the key to future growth in East Africa, the African Development Bank's lead Economist for the Bank's East Africa Regional Office has emphasised. Read more »

East Africa: African Development Bank - Manufacturing Key to Growth in East Africa - Regional Economic Outlook Report

The manufacturing sector will hold the key to future growth in East Africa, the African Development Bank's lead Economist for the Bank's East Africa Regional Office has emphasised. Read more »

Africa: Africa Investment Forum Delegates Underscore Pathways to Africa's Rapid Industrialisation

The industrialise Africa session at the Africa Investment Forum ran late into the evening on Thursday, with delegates focussing on how to drive investment, expand trade and… Read more »

Africa: Textile and Clothing Industries Can Drive Africa's Industrialization, Benefit Women

As the African Development Bank celebrates World Fashion Day, we take this opportunity to reflect on the potential of the Fashion industry to create value and wealth across the… Read more »

Africa: Integrity in Development Projects - African Development Bank Debars CHINT Electric for 36 Months for Fraudulent Practices

The institution's Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption found the company to have engaged in numerous misrepresentations of its past experience in bidding for Bank-financed… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Is Bad for Business, Invest in the Local Manufacturing of Low-Cost Generic Medicines, President Adesina Tells African Leaders

Malaria is bad for business. For this reason, Africa should invest in the local manufacturing of low-cost generic medicines to facilitate access to treatment for its people, the… Read more »

Africa: African Fashion Designers Take Centre Stage in India

The tremendous opportunity for Africa's fashion industry will attract global attention at the 2017 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in India. Read more »

Africa: Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin Addresses Issues of Globalization and Inequality At 11th African Economic Conference

On Day 1 of the 11th African Economic Conference in Abuja, Nigeria, Prof. Eric Maskin of Harvard University and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in economics made a short… Read more »

West Africa: Industrialization in West Africa (3) - Giving Rise to a "Made in Africa" Regional Industry?

A first and a second blog post on the theme of "Industrialization in West Africa" took stock of industrial development in West Africa and presented some of the strategies that… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Youth Empowerment Effort Addresses Africa's Fragile Industrialisation

The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Akinwumi Adesina, has addressed the challenge of creating jobs for youth in Africa, while outlining a number of initiatives the Bank… Read more »

Africa: With Fashionomics, the AfDB Plans to Raise the Profile of African Fashion and Textiles On the International Stage

The African Development Bank's (AfDB) Special Envoy on Gender, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, unveiled a new project within the Fashionomics initiative, launched last year under her… Read more »

Africa: Questions for Emanuela Gregorio, Gender Specialist At the AfDB and Key Player in Fashionomics

Where did the idea of Fashionomics originate? Read more »

Africa: Poverty and Inequality Reduction has Remained Less Responsive to Growth Successes Across the Continent, Says AfDB African Development Report 2015

African economies have grown substantially over the past decade, but  poverty and inequality reduction has remained less responsive to growth successes across the continent,… Read more »

Nigeria: AfDB Approves Trade Finance Loans to First Bank of Nigeria and FSDH Merchant Bank, Nigeria

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Monday, June 27, 2016, in Abidjan, US $300-million and US 50-million Trade Finance Loans to First Bank of… Read more »

Africa: Africa, "Workshop of the World" - Manufacturing Strategies to Unleash a Continent

Africa's share of manufacturing in GDP is less than half of the average for all developing countries. On Thursday, May 26, a panel discussion, "Africa - Workshop of the World", was… Read more »

Africa: A Positive Relationship Exists Between Economic Growth and Increased Added-Value of Manufacturing, Panel Hears

"Does the level of development in the manufacturing sector influence economic growth in Africa?" Marc Luc Dagebégnon Akplogan, an economist and statistician at the Institut… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Supports Rwanda's Manufacturing Sector Approves U.S.$ 30 Million Loan to Cement Company

Tunis - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 in Tunis, a U.S.$ 30-million loan to finance the construction of… Read more »