08-Nov-2010 - Africa’s development challenges can no longer be reduced to financial issues, but rather to a change in development paradigms which call for a voluntary mindset change with regard to money, especially development aid. That’s a view held by experts, representatives of development finance institutions and the civil society who attended the forum on aid effectiveness which took place in Tunis from 4-5 November 2010, under the aegis of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group.
06-Nov-2010 - Tunis, 5 November 2010 – Distinguished delegates drawn from African governments, international organizations, parliaments and civil society agreed on Friday, 5 November 2010 in Tunis that the time had come for African countries to rely more on their internal resources; such as taxation, the capital markets and better prices for their valuable commodities, and less on international aid for development.
05-Nov-2010 - Government reforms explain the success of Cape Verdean government development efforts, says the country’s finance minister, Cristina Duarte.
Speaking on the second day of the second regional meeting on aid effectiveness which took place from November 4-5, 2010, in Tunis, the Cape Verdean minister shared the country’s experiences in its efforts to attain socio-economic development.
05-Nov-2010 - One of the highlights of this week’s All-Africa Energy Week conference in Maputo was the presentation of best practices in Mozambique, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia and Uganda.
Mozambique was commended for adapting existing models, to local conditions, said Laura Nhancale, from the Mozambican Ministry of Energy.
According to Ms Nhancale, for any policy or project to succeed, it is imperative to take into account social, economic and cultural factors. Moreover, energy policies should include clear guidelines for the development of renewable...
05-Nov-2010 - While hydropower remains the main developed renewable energy resource in the world, solar energy is becoming more and more competitive in the short-term, said Pétronille Hazoumé, from Helios Energie (France). She made the statement during discussions at a five-day All-Africa Energy Week conference, taking place from 1-5 November 2010 in Maputo, Mozambique.
At the same time, she said, carbon emissions, which threaten the environment, have become a growing and real constraint to the development of traditional sources of energy.
05-Nov-2010 - La coopération Sud-Sud est le nouveau sujet à l’ordre du jour des débats au sein de la communauté du développement. Cette coopération n’est certes pas toute nouvelle, mais elle semble aller en s’accroissant, à la faveur de la progression économique de pays tels le Brésil, l’Inde, la Chine, voire l’Arabie saoudite, la Turquie, l’Afrique du Sud. Sans compter les banques arabes de développement, actives dans les pays récipiendaires depuis les années 60.
05-Nov-2010 - Tunis, 4 November 2010 – Mutual accountability and general participation are essential for successful development programmes, delegates at the second Regional Meeting on Aid Effectiveness said on Thursday, 4 November 2010 in Tunis, where South-South development partnership was also drawing attention.
The two-day event, jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union and NEPAD, is being held in preparation for the fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, to be held in Busan, Korea, in November 2011.
04-Nov-2010 - Tunis, 4 November 2010 - Africa must reduce aid-dependency and foster new alternative sources of development finance, the African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, has said.
Speaking at the opening of a two-day Second Regional Meeting on Aid Effectiveness on Thursday, 4 November 2010, in Tunis, Mr. Kaberuka said that African countries must build an agenda that is internally based, and underscores a reduction of aid-dependency.
03-Nov-2010 - Maputo, 3 November 2010 – The first All-Africa Energy Week got underway in Maputo, Mozambique, this week with emphasis on the importance of clean energy for sustainable development.
Energy sector specialists and African decision-makers are participating in the 1-5 November event jointly organized by the African Union, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and hosted by the Mozambican government.
02-Nov-2010 - The impact of the financial crisis and the state of financial sector development in North Africa – these were the topics that Issa Faye of the African Development Bank’s research department presented at the “Financing Africa” consultation workshop held during the just-concluded African Economic Conference (AEC) in Tunis.
01-Nov-2010 - La conférence économique africaine s’est terminée sur un consensus, « le consensus africain », celui des experts et des institutions économiques et financières du continent. Il va servir de cadre dans les prochaines années pour repenser la croissance économique en Afrique.
01-Nov-2010 - Parmi les sessions ayant marqué les discussions de la conférence économique africaine (AEC) 2010, figure sans nul doute, la table ronde du vendredi, 29 octobre, sur le thème : «De la reprise à la forte croissance : options stratégiques pour l’Afrique». Le débat a mobilisé, Mme Willene A.
01-Nov-2010 - October 27 2010- Seed Capital Assistance Facility helping investors provide early stage financing to clean energy entrepreneurs in the developing world.
29-Oct-2010 - The Nigerian Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, has urged Africans to pursue greater industrialization as there is no region that can attain greatness without a solid industrial base. Mr. Sanusi made the statement on Thursday, October 28, 2010, in Tunis, Tunisia, in a keynote address delivered within the framework of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group's African Economic Conference that took place from October 27-29 in the Tunisian capital.
29-Oct-2010 - Can human capital contribute to protecting workers in the event of external shocks? Case study of South Africa during the 2008-2009 crisis
29-Oct-2010 - On October 29, 2010, AfDB Vice President, Country and Regional Programmes and Policy, Mr. Aloysius Ordu, chaired a well-attended panel discussion on Evaluation as a Driver of Economic Recovery and Long-Term Growth: Patterns and Directions in Africa.
The panel discussion was hosted by the Operations Evaluation Department (OPEV) of the AfDB during the African Economic Conference 2010, which took place in Tunis, Tunisia, from 27 to 29 October, 2010.
29-Oct-2010 - "Pour qu’un pays atteigne le niveau souhaité de croissance économique, il doit avoir les ressources nécessaires telles que l'énergie et autres ressources naturelles. Afin de rendre le développement économique durable, ces ressources doivent être utilisées de telle manière qu'il y en ait suffisamment pour la génération actuelle ainsi que pour la future. Il est donc primordial d'assurer la conservation de l'environnement qui recèle ces ressources naturelles vitales.
29-Oct-2010 - “Since 2003 good governance has increased the impact of financial liberalization on financial development”, said John Karikari, Assistant Director of the Centre for Economics of the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).
29-Oct-2010 - The fifth African Economic Conference designed to bring policy-makers, researchers, academics and development experts ended on Friday, October 29, 2010, after intense discussions on key development issues facing the continent.
29-Oct-2010 - Infrastructure constraints and ineffective tools for trade facilitation, such as customs services and standards that make the movement of goods on the continent expensive, are some of the reasons why intra-African trade accounts for only 9.6% of total goods exports in the region. Based on this diagnosis, the AfDB supports the Aid for Trade Initiative (ATI) in several regions of the continent.
