Interviews
28/03/2011 - In my professional capacity, I head the Deloitte Consulting Africa Strategy Desk in Johannesburg assisting clients to access opportunities across the continent. On my return to South Africa, tomorrow, for example, I will make a presentation to a group of 15 Swedish investors wanting to understand the investment opportunities and associated risks in Africa and how to navigate the landscape in terms of market opportunity identification and quantification and market entry strategy.
Categories: Tunisia
18/03/2011 - “The AfDB’s President, Donald Kaberuka and I have discussed at length on environmental issues… We have shared commitments for partnership to jointly provide finance and develop the region,” Ms Littlefield said after their meeting in Tunis on March 17, 2011.
Categories: Tunisia, Private Sector Development
15/03/2011 - "The African Development Bank is one of the reliable friends who stands by you before you even launch an appeal for help”, said Tunisia’s Planning and International Cooperation Minister, Abdelhamid Triki, on Monday, 14 March 14, 2011. Mr. Triki was speaking after the signing ceremony of a one-million-dollar emergency humanitarian assistance grant from the AfDB in support of displaced people at the Tunisia-Libya border.
Categories: Tunisia, Libya, United States of America, Health, Human and Social Development
15/03/2011 - «L’action de la BAD est très positive… ce don contribuera également au renforcement des efforts logistiques de nos collègues du Croissant-Rouge tunisien », a déclaré le représentant de la Croix-Rouge, Jean-Michel Monod, suite à la signature d’un don d’un million de dollars avec la BAD, ce lundi, 14 mars 2011 à Tunis.
Categories: Tunisia, Libya, United States of America, Health, Human and Social Development
26/11/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Fragile States Unit (OSFU) will organize on 1 December 2010 in Tunis a workshop to sensitize Bank staff on the administration of the Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program (TCB) of the Fragile States Facility (FSF).
Categories: Tunisia, Fragile States Facility
05/11/2010 - Il faut d’abord mettre le binôme «Aide et Développement» dans son contexte historique. L’aide et le développement sont des concepts partout questionnés. Il y a toutes sortes de littératures sur le concept de l’aide et le développement, aujourd’hui. Mais pourquoi ce questionnement ? Nous assistons à la fin d’un modèle de développement et nous voyons l’émergence de nouveaux modèles de développement économique : le Brésil, la Malaisie, la Chine, etc.
Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results
05/11/2010 - Indeed as the AfDB President said today, “It is time for us to move away from investing so much of our precious time in aid effectiveness, and instead focus on development effectiveness”. This meeting would be most important if all the key African institutions and civil society organisations represented can establish a shared understanding and commit to a deliberate path to move us towards Aid-free development effectiveness.
Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results
03/11/2010 - The consequences of the recent financial crisis on African economies were not as catastrophic as the previous ones although various countries are still smarting from the crisis. With the help of the monetary and financial stimuli as well as the slowly improving financial conditions, I am happy that growth is resuming gradually in 2010.
Categories: Tunisia
01/11/2010 - Je pense que la CEA joue un rôle de plus en plus utile. J'ai d’ailleurs assisté à la première conférence, ceci bien avant d’être nommé Administrateur. Je croyais alors que cet événement avait une vocation plutôt académique/universitaire, mais je constate qu’elle prend de plus en plus une nature politique - au sens de « policy ». Etant donné les défis et les opportunités économiques auxquels l'Afrique fait face, des discussions éclairées sur les choix politiques sont très utiles pour l'Afrique et les Africains.
Categories: Tunisia
01/11/2010 - The Director of Economic Studies of the Inter-African Coffee Organization (IACO), Kwaku Owusu-Baah, was one of the prominent participants at the just-concluded fifth African Economic Conference (AEC) in Tunis. During the conference, Mr. Owusu-Baah, an agricultural economist, raised several issues which he said have seriously compromised Africa’s comparative advantage in the production and trade in agricultural commodities since the mid-1980s. In an interview, he decried the neglect of agriculture by both African governments and development institutions.
Categories: Tunisia
