The African Development Bank Group This document has been prepared by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group. Designations employed in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion on the part of the institution concerning the legal status of any country, or the limitation of its...

The year 2012 has been very eventful. The Institute has been working relentlessly to implement capacity development activities in the Bank and Regional Member Countries (RMCs) and to build partnerships with top capacity development institutes in Africa and globally

Universal primary education and the elimination of gender gap in enrollment rates are two of the targets in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Achieving these goals has been a high development priority for sub-Saharan African countries over the past decade. The challenges in this sector...

In recent years, high and volatile inflation has re-emerged as a central macroeconomic policy concern in Tanzania, as it has across East Africa. Throughout the first decade following the macroeconomic reforms implemented in the mid-1990s, strong domestic output growth coupled with favourable global...

La récente crise financière 2009 a suscité de nombreux appels pour des réformes de la réglementation et supervision. La réaction initiale à la crise a été relative à des perplexités : comment une telle étendue de difficultés financières survient dans des pays où la surveillance des risques...

The global financial crisis threatens to engulf most part of the world – including Regional Member Countries (RMCs) of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Growth forecasts have been downgraded significantly in recent months save for a few African countries. Nagging questions being asked are: how...

The way countries finance their development has been a matter of debate for a very long time. This debate seeks to curve out socio-economic and political spaces for policy development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB), which are the major players...

The current global crisis highlights the need to better understand the financial and broader interconnectedness among the various sectors of the economy and between them and the rest of the world (Murinde, 2009; ECB, 2011; Shrestha et al., 2011). African think tanks, central banks and government...

Remittances constitute an increasingly significant flow of funds to the developing world. In 2004, remittances totaled more than USD 160 billion, an increase of over 65% since 2001,when their flows stood at an estimated USD 96.5 billion; the figures went up to US$300 billion during 2006, $328...