News & Events
28/05/2010 - Deputies of the Committee of Ten Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors, on Thursday, May 27, 2010 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, held their first informal meeting at the side of the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s Annual Meetings.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Financial Crisis
26/05/2010 - La crise financière devrait accélérer la consolidation des marchés de télécommunications en Afrique. C’est qu’indique le Rapport sur les perspectives économiques de l’Afrique (PEA) 2010 publié le 24 mai 2010, à Abidjan, dans le cadre des Assemblées annuelles de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD).
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Financial Crisis, Information & Communication Technology
- From: 20/05/2010
- To: 21/05/2010
- Location: Marrakech, Morocco
En Afrique, ces institutions bancaires sont largement associées à la relance économique. Cependant, bien que la majorité des pays africains ne soient pas encore sur la voie pour atteindre leurs objectifs pour le développement, le secteur bancaire a réalisé d’importants progrès au cours de la précédente décennie.
Categories: Morocco, Private Sector Development, Financial Crisis
07/05/2010 - The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa ended on Friday, 7 May 2010, in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, after three days of deliberations on how leaders and policy-makers should deal with challenges posed by the global economic crisis and how to use the crisis as an opportunity to design a sustainable road map for the continent’s development.
Categories: Tanzania, Financial Crisis
06/05/2010 - African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, and his delegation are participating in the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa which started on Wednesday, 5 May 2010, in Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania. For the first time, the AfDB is the WEF’s official partner and, it is in this regard, playing an important role in the deliberations. In order to bring the institution’s development themes to the fore, Mr. Kaberuka has attended several discussion forums on the "state of investment in Africa and how to make the African market more attractive". Mr. Kaberuka was also part of a discussion panel that focused on "women and entrepreneurship in Afrique".
Categories: Tanzania, Financial Crisis
30/04/2010 - Cape Verde, with little natural resources, goes against all odds in Africa by becoming the first case of “policy induced graduation” on the continent, as opposed to natural resources driven graduation. A resource-poor country characterized by an arid Sahelian climate and little arable land has witnessed steady rising living standards and is on the way to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Categories: Cape Verde, Financial Crisis, Middle Income Countries
- From: 04/05/2010
- To: 07/05/2010
- Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will join African and global leaders in defining a continental development and growth agenda at the 20th World Economic Forum (WEF) for Africa scheduled to take place from 4-7 May 2010 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Categories: Tanzania, Financial Crisis
28/04/2010 - On his first official visit to Cape Verde from 27-30 April 2010, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, commended the country on being “the first case of a policy induced graduation” from low- to middle-income status.
Categories: Cape Verde, Financial Crisis, Middle Income Countries
27/04/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, has said that Africa’s infrastructure needs will benefit most from a general capital increase as recommended by the institution’s Governors Consultative Committee (GCC) on 23 April in Washington D.C.
Categories: United States of America, Financial Crisis
- From: 27/04/2010
- To: 30/04/2010
- Location: Cape Verde
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, will be on official visit to Cape Verde from 27-30 April 2010. The mission builds on the strong partnership between the country and the Bank. President Kaberuka will use the visit to reaffirm the Bank’s continuous support to the country’s economic efforts and its development projects.
Categories: Cape Verde, Financial Crisis, Middle Income Countries
