Press Releases

05/04/2013 - On March 19, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank convened a workshop with representatives of Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia in Rabat, Morocco to review and upgrade the region’s path-breaking regional Investment Plan for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), with funding from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF).

Categories: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Energy & Power, Infrastructure, Climate Change, Environment

01/04/2013 - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a pu accompagner en 2011, l’Institut National de la Statistique (INS) dans la revue et la mise à jour de sa méthodologie de mesure de la pauvreté et ce en collaboration avec la Banque mondiale. Le travail a été mené en consultation avec un comité d'experts universitaires tunisiens, des représentants des ministères et des structures publiques et d’organisations non gouvernementales.

Categories: Tunisia, Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development

28/03/2013 - Capital markets in North Africa have a long history but have been marginal to the region’s development, concludes a new brief published by the African Development Bank entitled “Capital Market Development in North Africa: Current Status and Future Potential”.

Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance

28/03/2013 - In a recent paper produced as part of a series on North African policies, the African Development Bank (AfDB) analyzes the prospects of exporting the health services available in North Africa.

Accelerated growth and job creation pose major challenges for the countries of North Africa (NAF), which are all facing a rapid increase in their workforce. In the Maghreb, the preponderance of the textile-clothing sector and outsourced automobile-related manufacturing in industry, as well the lack of alternative manufacturing specialization largely contribute to fragility.

Categories: Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Health, Human and Social Development

28/03/2013 - The African Development Bank has officially released the report entitled “Towards a New Economic Model for Tunisia: Identifying Tunisia’s Binding Constraints to Broad-Based Growth”. The new AfDB report, prepared in close collaboration with the United States Government and the Government of Tunisia, aims at identifying the most binding constraints to growth in Tunisia in order to identify areas where policy reforms are most needed. The study attempts to identify these constraints, both as they were manifested in the years leading up to the revolution and today. The methodology starts from the widely accepted proposition that private sector investment and entrepreneurship are ultimately the keys to sustained economic growth and follows the Growth Diagnostics approach proposed by Ricardo Hausmann, Dani Rodrik and Andrès Velasco.

Categories: Tunisia, United States of America, Economic & Financial Governance

27/03/2013 - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), in partnership with the Office for Tunisians Abroad (OTE), have published a new study on employment opportunities for Tunisians in Libya.

Categories: Tunisia, Libya, Migration and Development Initiative, Human and Social Development, Youth

15/03/2013 - Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, delivered on March 13 a message of hope to Tunisians at a national conference on social business in Tunisia. The conference, which took place at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (IHEC) in Carthage, was organized by the African Development Bank’s Human Development Department and Yunus Social Business, in collaboration with Global Shapers and Orange.

Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance, Human and Social Development

13/03/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched Open Data Platforms for the following 20 African countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Republic of Congo, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Senegal, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, Namibia, Ghana, South Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Economic & Financial Governance

12/03/2013 - The African Development Bank is financing a ground-breaking initiative in Tunisia – Souk At-tanmia – with the goal to foster youth employment, particularly in disadvantaged regions that are struggling with high levels of unemployment in the aftermath of the revolution.

Categories: Tunisia, Gender, Human and Social Development, Youth