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- From: 05/06/2013
- To: 07/06/2013
- Location: Praia, Cape Verde
Remittances represent a rising source of finance for the continent and hold immense potential as drivers of economic growth and development. A recent study, Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments, conducted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the World Bank shows that remittance flows into Africa reached US $40 billion in 2010 and have quadrupled since 1990. African remittances currently account for 2.6 per cent of GDP, a figure that in some countries equals or even exceeds both foreign direct investment and aid.
Categories: Cape Verde, Migration and Development Initiative, Human and Social Development, Economic & Financial Governance
- Date: 13/03/2013
- Location: IHEC Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
“Social Business has enormous potential to solve social problems in a financially sustainable way, both in Tunisia and across Africa.” – Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Chairman of Yunus Social Business.
Categories: Tunisia, Human and Social Development
- From: 11/03/2013
- To: 14/03/2013
- Location: South Africa
Representatives from Ministries of Finance and Health, national health insurance authorities and development partners, as well as experts and practitioners from Asia and Africa are to meet in South Africa next month at a forum on the role of health insurance in achieving universal health coverage and social health protection.
Categories: South Africa, Human and Social Development, Health
07/03/2013 - International Women’s Day is a day of celebration and a day of challenge, often rolled into one. In realizing how far we have come towards ensuring genuine equality of opportunity for women as for men, it becomes clear how far we still have to go.
Categories: Gender, Education, Human and Social Development, Health
- From: 11/02/2013
- To: 12/02/2013
- Location: Sheraton Hotel, Tunis, Tunisia
The African Development Bank is hosting a Forum on Indigenous Peoples’ Development Issues in Africa. The event will take place on February 11-12, 2013 at the Sheraton Hotel, Tunis, Tunisia.
Categories: Tunisia, Human and Social Development
- Date: 23/01/2013
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
This event is organized by the AfDB’s Human Development Department (OSHD). The book, titled “The Cash Dividend: The Rise of Cash Transfers Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa”, is authored by Marito Garcia, Lead Economist and Charity Moore, Consultant at the World Bank.
Categories: Tunisia, Human and Social Development
- Date: 31/10/2012
- Location: Beijing, China
On Wednesday, Oct 31, the African Development Bank, the World Bank Institute and the Asia Network for Capacity Building in Health Systems Strengthening (ANHSS), will be sponsoring and participating in a special knowledge-exchange session between Asia and Africa on Health Insurance at the 2nd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Beijing, China.
Categories: China, Human and Social Development, Health
- Date: 04/10/2012
- Location: France
Le 12ème Forum économique international sur l’Afrique se tiendra au Centre de conférences de l’OCDE à Paris en France, le jeudi 4 octobre 2012. Sur le thème « Gestion des ressources humaines et naturelles : quelles politiques pour promouvoir l’emploi des jeunes en Afrique ? », ce Forum est organisé par le Centre de développement de l’OCDE en partenariat avec la Banque africaine de développement, le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement, la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique et le gouvernement français.
Categories: France, Economic & Financial Governance, Youth, Human and Social Development
- Date: 01/08/2012
- Location: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is attending the meeting of African finance ministers and central bank governors which began in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 1 August.
Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo, Poverty Reduction, Food Production, Youth, Human and Social Development, Energy & Power
- Date: 16/07/2012
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
On the occasion of the African Economic Outlook 2012 (AEO) regional launch in Tunis, under the high patronage of the Tunisian Head of Government, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the OECD Development Centre jointly organise a conference on “Promoting Youth Employment in the North Africa Region” on 16 July 2012 in the Ministry of Human Rights and Transitional Justice, Tunis.
Categories: Tunisia, Youth, Human and Social Development
