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This year’s African Economic Conference (AEC) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, from 30 October to 2 November and the organizers are now calling for papers to be presented and debated there from academics and development experts.

Categories: Rwanda, Financial Crisis

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is co-hosting a major conference on the development of the private sector in Africa and its crucial role for economic growth, job creation and poverty reduction on the continent.

Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance, Private Sector Development

The high inflation rates that that have been plaguing the countries of East Africa recently could start to fall in 2012 and eventually reach single-digit level, a meeting organised by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Nairobi heard today.The seminar on ‘Inflation Dynamics in East Africa’ brought together the governors and high officials from the central banks of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Nigeria to discuss the bout of high inflation recently suffered in the region.

Categories: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Financial Crisis, Food Production

Several Heads of State and Government will participate in a High-Level event on Post-Conflict Peace-building: the Experience of Rwanda, to be held in Kigali on the 8th and 9th of November, 2011.

Categories: Rwanda, Human and Social Development

The Third Africa Conference on Hygiene and Sanitation (AfricaSan 3) is held from July 19-21, 2011 in Kigali, Rwanda. AfricaSan 3 is being hosted by the Government of Rwanda and the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW). AfDB is one of the conference sponsors.

Categories: Rwanda, Water Supply & Sanitation

The African Legal Support Facility (ASLF) and the Pan-African Lawyers Union (PALU) will jointly launch a capacity building project in international commercial law on the 11 and 12 February in Kigali, Rwanda. The importance of leveraging the rule of law to serve economic development, better governance and improved business climate on the continent will be addressed.

Categories: Rwanda, African Legal Support Facility

An African Development Bank (AfDB) Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP) for Eastern Africa will be validated at a workshop scheduled to take place on 11 November in Nairobi, Kenya. The RISP covers Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. It is designed to support for regional infrastructure and institutional capacity building, including trade facilitation.

Categories: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Somalia, Seychelles, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Comoros, Burundi, Infrastructure, Regional Integration

An important AfDB delegation, led by the institution’s President, Donald Kaberuka, will attend a round table conference on the implementation of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes region scheduled to take place in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, from 5- and 6 November, 2009.

Categories: Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility

The AfDB Rwanda field office (RWFO) participated in celebrations marking the country’s classification as the world’s top reformer following the publication of the World Bank’s “Doing Business 2010” report which places the country at 67th position, up from 143rd in a previous edition.

Categories: Rwanda, United States of America

The African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2009 has been launched at a ceremony on 28 July 2009, in Kigali.

Categories: Rwanda