News & Events
01/03/2013 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, was received on Thursday, February 28 in Yamoussoukro by Alassane Ouattara, President of Côte D’Ivoire. The meeting took place alongside the 42th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), one day after the AfDB Board of Directors held its meeting in Abidjan.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Regional Integration
28/02/2013 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, is on mission to Togo from March 1-3, 2013, where he will inaugurate the Bank’s new country office in Lomé, the Togolese capital, accompanied by a delegation comprising Senior Management.
Categories: Togo
28/02/2013 - The African Development Bank Group, on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, held the first meeting of its Board of Directors in Abidjan since the Bank’s relocation to Tunisia in 2003, signalling the first steps of the Bank’s return to Côte d’Ivoire, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka said at the meeting’s opening.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria
- Date: 04/03/2013
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
“Promoting Economic Reforms in Developing Countries: Rethinking Budgetary Aid?” is the first paper to be discussed by the African Development Bank’s Office of the Vice-President (ORVP) and Chief Economist Complex (ECON) on March 4, 2013 in Tunis as part of the joint ORVP/ECON Bi-Monthly Country Economic/Thematic Review Meetings. Monday’s meeting marks the first of the 2013 series.
Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance
28/02/2013 - The African Development Bank consulted Governments, development partners, the private sector, civil society, youth, and educational and training institutions on technical vocational skills development in Kampala, Uganda, from February 25-27, 2013.
Categories: Uganda, Human and Social Development, Education
28/02/2013 - Leaders of the African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group have pledged close collaboration to support development.
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28/02/2013 - This paper, published in January 2013 by the Chief Economist Complex of the African Development Bank, examines donor practices in the use of budgetary aid to promote economic and structural reforms in developing countries, notably in Africa. It is based on an observation in recent literature to the effect that, despite its increased use since its conception in the 1980s, budgetary aid appears to have had limited impact on the design and implementation of economic reforms in developing countries.
Categories: Economic & Financial Governance
28/02/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB), rated Aaa/AAA/AAA, today announced that it will offer an Education Support Bond to Japanese retail investors. The bond will be distributed by Japan Asia Securities and Okinawa Securities.
28/02/2013 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved Wednesday in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, a loan of US $300 million to finance the Transport Sector and Economic Governance Reform Program and the Nigeria Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for the period 2013-2017.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Economic & Financial Governance, Transport
27/02/2013 - An African Development Bank team composed of experts from the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC) and the Sierra Leone Field Office (SLFO) completed its second green growth mission to Sierra Leone from February 4 to 8, 2013. The objective of the mission was to work further with Government counterparts on mainstreaming green growth into Sierra Leone’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) – (2013–2017) called “Agenda for Prosperity”, currently under preparation.
Categories: Sierra Leone, Climate Change, Environment, Poverty Reduction, Green Growth Initiative
