News & Events
26/03/2013 - A new policy paper by the African Development Bank carries the importance of trade integration to macroeconomic convergence. Published in March 2013, the report titled “Supporting Macroeconomic Convergence in African regional economic communities” recommends to link the roadmap in the implementation of macroeconomic convergence to progress made in trade integration.
Categories: Economic & Financial Governance, Regional Integration
18/03/2013 - The Development Effectiveness Review (DER) is a series of publications reviewing the African Development Bank’s (AfDB or Bank) contribution to Africa’s development results. Beginning with the first Annual Development Effectiveness Review published in 2011, the DER series has promoted transparency and accountability to our member countries and stakeholders. It also helps us ensure that our operations are continually improving. In 2012, we have published a series of DERs examining aspects of the Bank’s portfolio, including fragile states, regional integration, governance and the Bank’s country program in Rwanda.
Categories: Rwanda, Quality Assurance & Results, Economic & Financial Governance, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility
01/03/2013 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, was received on Thursday, February 28 in Yamoussoukro by Alassane Ouattara, President of Côte D’Ivoire. The meeting took place alongside the 42th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), one day after the AfDB Board of Directors held its meeting in Abidjan.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Regional Integration
26/02/2013 - Africa’s trade with the United States grew by more than 500 per cent between 2001 and 2011, but many African countries missed out on that five-fold growth, a leading Washington expert told African Development Bank (AfDB) staff recently.
Categories: Regional Integration, Human and Social Development, Agriculture & Agro-industries
21/01/2013 - The African Development Bank is hosting in Tunis a delegation from the World Bank Group in a series of meetings from Monday, January 21 to Wednesday, January 23, 2013 to discuss the joint strategy planning between the two Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).
Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance, Private Sector Development, Regional Integration, Infrastructure
09/01/2013 - A new report by the African Development Bank makes concrete proposals for the establishment of a monetary union in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa region (COMESA). In order to achieve greater macroeconomic convergence in the region, the “Facilitating Multilateral Fiscal Surveillance in the Monetary Union Context with Focus on the COMESA Region” study envisages a boost to fiscal surveillance at both regional and national levels.
Categories: Economic & Financial Governance, Regional Integration
27/12/2012 - African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka met with cooperating partners and ambassadors in Lusaka on December 21 to discuss development opportunities and challenges in Zambia.
Categories: Zambia, Regional Integration, Private Sector Development, Economic & Financial Governance
27/12/2012 - African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka said African countries have made great strides in growing their economies despite the global financial crisis during an official visit to Lusaka, Zambia, on December 19.
Categories: Zambia, Regional Integration, Financial Crisis, Health, Human and Social Development
27/12/2012 - On an official visit to Zambia, African Development Bank Group President Donald Kaberuka paid a courtesy call on Zambia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Given Lubinda, on December 20. The meeting was attended by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Efron Lungu; Zambia’s Resident Representative, Freddie Kwesiga; and other Government and Bank officials.
Categories: Zambia, Economic & Financial Governance, Transport, Infrastructure, Regional Integration
12/10/2012 - Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda and former Chief Economist of the African Development Bank (AfDB), underscored the importance of economic integration as key to sustainable growth in East Africa during a seminar on Regional Integration in East Africa organized by the African Development Institute (EADI) and the AfDB’s Development Research Department (EDRE) in Tunis on October 5.
Categories: Uganda, Tunisia, Regional Integration
