In recent years, India’s economic partnership with African countries has been vibrant, extending beyond trade and investment to technology transfers, knowledge sharing, and skills development. Trade between India and the African countries dates back many centuries, to the time when Indian traders...

In accordance with Article 32 of the Agreement Establishing the African Development Bank and Articles 8, 11 and 12 of the General Regulations made thereunder, and pursuant to Article 26 of the Agreement Establishing the African Development Fund and Articles 8, 11 and 12 of the General Regulations...

The Africa Competitiveness Report 2011, the third report jointly published by our organizations, comes out at a time when Africa’s recovery from the global economic crisis has been faster than it has in many other parts of the world. Indeed, Africa has seen what can be termed an “economic...

The world today has sufficient global food supplies, yet 925 million people were undernourished in 2010; of this 239 million were in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Moreover, the number of undernourished people in developing countries, including in Africa, has steadily risen since the mid-1990s. Large...

Africa’s underdeveloped infrastructure has been a major obstacle for the continent’s development and its efforts to achieve a strong, sustained and in rural and marginalized areas also shared growth (Figure 1, and Figure 1, Annex). Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), ranks consistently on...

The Africa Infrastructure Knowledge Program (AIKP) is a successor program to the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) which grew out of the pledge by the G8 Summit of 2005 at Gleneagles to increase substantially ODA assistance to Africa, particularly the infrastructure sector, and the...

The confirmation of a global economic recovery, supported by the release of encouraging economic statistics, helped to shore up commodity prices during recent months. The turmoil in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region also added an ongoing risk premium to crude oil prices. At the same...

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