News & Events
24/05/2012 - Because Africa is a continent of 54 countries, finding data on how Africans live in terms of consumption and spending is not easy, but a new report from the African Development Bank (AfDB) helps to fill the knowledge gap.
Categories: Human and Social Development, Financial Crisis, Chief Economist's Office
23/05/2012 - On May 10, a high level meeting chaired by President Donald Kaberuka, former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Web Foundation elicited a lively debate among 10 Ministers of Education and Science and Technology from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda; who met with officials of Intel, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, HP, Adobe, and Microsoft among other leading technology companies in Africa. Other country governments represented were Benin, Burundi, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Nigeria and Rwanda.
Categories: Ethiopia, Financial Crisis, Information & Communication Technology, Education, President's Corner
11/05/2012 - “The African economy which largely depends on the exploitation of natural resources should move on to become a transformation economy.” This was one of the key messages of President Donald Kaberuka on the first day of the World Economic Forum on Africa taking place in Addis Ababa, from 9 to 11 May 2012.
Categories: Ethiopia, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
10/05/2012 - Today at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, high-level representatives from the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, the African Development Bank, Microsoft, Nokia, infoDev, DEMO, and the World Economic Forum launched a new partnership to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa.
Categories: Ethiopia, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
- From: 30/10/2012
- To: 02/11/2012
- Location: Kigali, Rwanda
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, Chief Economist's Office
- From: 09/05/2012
- To: 11/05/2012
- Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
AfDB president, Donald Kaberuka, will co-chair the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa, to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 9 to11 May. Ethiopia is the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa, and a prime example of the continent’s fast-growing economies.
Categories: Ethiopia, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
25/04/2012 - The African Development Institute (EADI) and the African Development Bank held a seminar in Tunis on 19 April on quantitative easing, a method of injecting money into the economy recently introduced by various central banks to deal with problems arising from the global financial crisis and resultant austerity programmes.
Categories: Tunisia, Financial Crisis
18/04/2012 - The African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) delegation led by its President, Donald Kaberuka, is attending this year’s World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings taking place in Washington DC.
Categories: United States of America, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
- Date: 19/04/2012
- Location: Washington DC
The Committee of Ten (C-10) of African finance ministers and central bank governors will hold its next meeting on 19 April, 2012, on the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. The African Development Bank president, Donald Kaberuka, will head his institution’s delegation and he will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony.
Categories: United States of America, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
- Date: 15/02/2012
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
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, Chief Economist's Office
