November 29, 2010
Africa: AfDB At Cancun Climate Change Conference
An African Development Bank (AfDB delegation has arrived in Cancun, Mexico, to participate in the Sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP 16) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate… Read more »
November 23, 2010
Africa: Jean-Michel Severino At AfDB Eminent Speakers' Seminar
"The New Challenges for Economic Policies in Africa", is the theme of the forthcoming African Development Bank Group's Eminent Speakers' Series to be addressed by Jean-Michel… Read more »
November 19, 2010
Africa: AfDB Highlights Africa's Potentials At Annual Energy Sector Mission
The African Development Bank illustrated the vast potential of Africa's renewable energy and private sector projects to private industry firms, consultants, and investors from a… Read more »
November 11, 2010
Africa: G-20 Summit - AfDB Looks Forward to Positive Outcomes for Africa
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has commended the decision to put development issues on the main agenda of the G-20 Summit in Seoul for the first time. Read more »
November 10, 2010
Africa: Africa And the G-20 Summit in Seoul
As the Group of 20 developed countries head to Seoul for their 2010 summit from 11-12 November 2010, experts believe that the summit, hosted for the first time by an emerging… Read more »
November 08, 2010
Africa: Counting More On Changing Mindsets Rather Than On 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 09, 2010
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 05, 2010
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 »
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 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 02, 2010
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 »
Africa: Interview with Byanyima - "Incorporating Gender Perspective in All Steps of Economic Policy Management Process"
One of the landmarks of the Fifth African Economic Conference held from October 27-29, 2010 in Tunis, Tunisia was the joint-launch by AfDB, UNDP and IDEP of the Gender and Economic… Read more »
Africa: Experts Discuss Governance Issues At Aec
"Since 2003 good governance has increased the impact of financial liberalization on financial development", said John Karikari, Assistant Director of the Centre for Economics of… Read more »
October 28, 2010
Africa: Interview with African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Executive Director, William Lyakurwa
"Good governance including the rule of law is central to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), retaining capital domestically as well as levering foreign assistance as… Read more »
Africa: Closing Gender Gaps Crucial to Equitable, Efficient Economic Development Management-Gepmi-Africa Partners
Four development institutions including the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations African Institute for Economic… Read more »