Press Releases
05/10/2012 - The 7th African Economic Conference (AEC) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, from October 30 to November 2, 2012 on the theme, “Fostering Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa in an Age of Global Uncertainty.”
Categories: Rwanda, Financial Crisis
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, Human and Social Development
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
31/01/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB), a strategic partner of the World Economic Forum in Africa, is represented at the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings from 25-28 January 2011 in Davos, Switzerland. On Friday 28 January, the Bank addressed the importance of development finance in the context of increased South-South partnerships.
Categories: Switzerland, Human and Social Development, Financial Crisis
01/10/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Citigroup and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have agreed to provide USD 175 million in trade financing for exporters and importers in Africa to help boost economic growth.
Categories: Financial Crisis, Economic & Financial Governance, Private Sector Development, Trade Finance Initiative
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
