News & Events
29/10/2010 - AfDB Vice President, Country and Regional Programmes and Policy, Mr. Aloysius Ordu, chaired a well-attended panel discussion on Evaluation as a Driver of Economic Recovery and Long-Term Growth: Patterns and Directions in Africa.
Categories: Tunisia, Operations Evaluation, Chief Economist's Office
29/10/2010 - "Pour qu’un pays atteigne le niveau souhaité de croissance économique, il doit avoir les ressources nécessaires telles que l'énergie et autres ressources naturelles. Afin de rendre le développement économique durable, ces ressources doivent être utilisées de telle manière qu'il y en ait suffisamment pour la génération actuelle ainsi que pour la future. Il est donc primordial d'assurer la conservation de l'environnement qui recèle ces ressources naturelles vitales.
Categories: Tunisia, Environment, Chief Economist's Office
29/10/2010 - The fifth African Economic Conference designed to bring policy-makers, researchers, academics and development experts ended on Friday, October 29, 2010, after intense discussions on key development issues facing the continent.
Categories: Tunisia, Chief Economist's Office
29/10/2010 - 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 base. Mr. Sanusi made the statement on Thursday, October 28, 2010, in Tunis, Tunisia, in a keynote address delivered within the framework of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group's African Economic Conference that took place from October 27-29 in the Tunisian capital.
Categories: Tunisia, Nigeria, Economic & Financial Governance, Chief Economist's Office
29/10/2010 - The Fifth African Economic Conference (AEC), in Tunis from 27 to 29 October 2010, was an opportunity for AfDB Research Economists, Marco Stampini and Désiré Vencatachellum; and Ron Leung, from Oxford Center for Study of African Economy, to present a study on the importance of human potential during the 2008-2009 crisis. Presented under the title: “Can human capital contribute to protecting workers in the event of external shocks?”
Categories: Tunisia, Human and Social Development, Chief Economist's Office
29/10/2010 - Déterminer les clés de l’identification des facteurs de changement à long terme pour l’Afrique, notamment sur les cinq décennies à venir, tel a été le socle des discussions, le 28 octobre 2010, de la session spéciale consacrée à la Vision 2050 élaborée par l’Agence française de développement et la BAD, dans le cadre de la 5ème Conférence économique africaine.
Categories: Tunisia, Chief Economist's Office
29/10/2010 - “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 the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). Mr Karikari, whose paper entitled “Governance, Financial Liberalization, and Financial Development in Sub Saharan Africa” was presented and discussed at a seminar on Governance Issues, during the African Economic Conference on Thursday 28th October 2010, in Tunis.
Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance, Chief Economist's Office
29/10/2010 - 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 Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI-Africa). After the launch on October 28, Ms Winnie Byanyima, UNDP Gender Team Director, who was instrumental in the setting up GEPMI provided additional perspectives on the initiative.
Categories: Tunisia, Gender, Chief Economist's Office
29/10/2010 - 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 of the reasons why intra-African trade accounts for only 9.6% of total goods exports in the region. Based on this diagnosis, the AfDB supports the Aid for Trade Initiative (ATI) in several regions of the continent.
Categories: Tunisia, Regional Integration, Chief Economist's Office
28/10/2010 - Si l`économie africaine dans son ensemble a affiché une bonne résistance face à la crise, les dirigeants du continent doivent dorénavant s`attarder sur les facteurs pouvant mener à une véritable croissance à long terme, signale François Bourguignon, de l`Ecole d`économie de Paris, lors d’une présentation à la deuxième session plénière de la Conférence économique africaine, le 28 octobre 2010.
Categories: Tunisia, Financial Crisis, Chief Economist's Office
