11-Nov-2009 - The AEC session on the global financial crisis on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, was marked by a measured presentation from Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, and Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at The University of Oxford.
11-Nov-2009 - The AfDB delegation led by Vice President Bobby Pittman attended the opening ceremony of the Second African Water Week which is being held in Midrand, South Africa from 9-13 November 2009.
11-Nov-2009 - The China-Africa trade has become a major issue in international affairs. Although some say the links are beneficial to Africa while other hold a different view, these exchanges nnetheless provide opportunities to maximize the potential offered by the partnership, says Olusanya Ajakaiye, from the African Economic Research Consortium. These opportunities arise in three areas, namely trade, aid and investment.
11-Nov-2009 - The African Economic Conference (AEC) opened on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Launched by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group in November 2006 in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Economic Conference has, since then, become an annual event with this year’s meeting taking place against the backdrop of a severe global financials crisis that has hurt many African countries.
11-Nov-2009 - “Africa has to change ways of doing things in agriculture and to recognize the global winds of change for the sector,” Bank Group Operations Evaluation Officer, Detlev Puetz, said on Tuesday 11 November 2009 in Addis-Ababa, during a presentation on the theme: Facing the financial crisis: The imperative of regional action for agriculture in Africa. In the presence of more than 150 conference participants, Mr. Puetz developed key theories on new paths for agricultural finance development.
11-Nov-2009 - Tunis, 11 November 2009 – Prospects for re-launching sustainable growth and development in the wake of the global financial crisis and ensure that the gains made by many African countries in the last three decades are not eroded is at the heart of deliberations at the fourth African Economic Conference (AEC) which opened Wednesday 11 November 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
11-Nov-2009 - Tunis, 11 November 2009 – Half the world is woman. Educating a woman means educating a family. These two popular sayings underscore the critical and timeless roles women play in society.
Women are known to play incredible and soul-saving roles, mostly indiscreetly, in difficult times including during wars and natural disasters.
In times of penury, when children are hungry and the men lose their sources of livelihoods, everyone turns to the wife and/or mother for support. And in most cases, they provide all that is required to put body and soul...
11-Nov-2009 - The Bank Group delegation that was in India on an official visit devoted its third and last day in the country to information and communication technology. While in Bangalore, the country’s new technology capital, Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, visited several local information technology companies.
10-Nov-2009 - Comment renforcer la coopération de la Banque avec l'Inde ? Comment s'inspirer de la grande expérience de l'Inde dans deux domaines clé que sont les technologies de l'information et le transport ferroviaire ? Et ce, afin de voir dans quelle mesure les mettre au service du développement. C'est le but de la visite de trois jours qu'effectue actuellement le président Kaberuka dans ce pays.
06-Nov-2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, will be on an official visit to India from November 9-11, 2009. While in India, Mr. Kaberuka will meet with Indian government officials and businesspeople with whom he will discuss how India and Africa could cooperate in the railway and information technology domains.
06-Nov-2009 - The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) ended on Friday, November 6, 2009, in Bujumbura, Burundi. The closing ceremony was presided over by the Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza, and Zambian President, Rupiah Banda, who is also the ICGLR’s current chairperson. Speaking during the conference, Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, reaffirmed his institution’s support to the Great Lakes region, recalling that the Bank Group was a co-organizer of the roundtable.
05-Nov-2009 - Le Tribunal administratif du Groupe de la BAD (TRIB) a ouvert sa 17ème session judiciaire, le mardi 3 novembre 2009 à Tunis. Cette session, indique-t-on, a été convoquée, en application des articles V et XVI des règles de procédure et, sur instruction du président du TRIB, le juge Maurice Glèlè Ahanhanzo. Quelque cinq affaires sont inscrites au rôle de la session, sous la présidence du juge Yadh Ben Achour. L’audience publique a enregistré la présence de plusieurs collègues.
05-Nov-2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, has reaffirmed AfDB support to the Great Lakes Region and the region’s eleven countries at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) taking place in Bujumbura, Burundi, where the AfDB is attending as a member of the conference and a bilateral partner.
Mr. Kaberuka said the region had, to an extent, mitigated the impact of the global crisis, adding that the implementation of the conference’s peace, security, stability and development agenda should offer...
02-Nov-2009 - Le président de la BAD, Donald Kaberuka, a ouvert lundi 2 novembre 2009 à Tunis, la cérémonie marquant la célébration du 10è anniversaire du Tribunal administratif (TRIB) du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement.
29-Oct-2009 - Jamais une réunion de femmes chefs d’entreprise africaines n’avait pris une telle ampleur. Il faut dire que le contexte économique rend encore plus difficile pour les femmes l’exercice de direction d’une micro, petite ou moyenne entreprise en Afrique.
29-Oct-2009 - Pemba, Mozambique, October 29, 2009 – “The one-stop shops have made a real difference to our community,” says a small grocery shop owner in the northern city of Pemba, Issa Valigy Sungyahama, pointing proudly to her newly acquired business license that has been nicely framed and hung on the wall.
27-Oct-2009 - Tunis / Yaoundé - 26 th October 2009 – Under its African Women In Business (AWIB) Initiative launched in 2004 by AfDB Private Sector Operations (OPSM) and as a side event to the 57th World Congress of FCEM- World Association of Women Entrepreneurs, the African Development Bank organizes today a workshop on “Enhancing African Women In Business’ Development in the context of the crisis” to be held in the conferences’ center of Yaoundé.
27-Oct-2009 - C’est dans une salle comble d’experts de la finance et du développement, et, en présence de nombreux diplomates, que le Pr Wangari Maathai a donné ce matin, au sein de la Banque africaine de développement, une conférence de haut niveau sur la gestion des ressources naturelles et la réduction de la pauvreté.
La conférence, qui s’inscrit dans le prestigieux programme des éminents conférenciers du groupe de la BAD, est destinée à renforcer la position de la BAD en tant que pôle du savoir sur les questions de développement en Afrique.
27-Oct-2009 - “Do your best to ensure your continent’s development”, that is the message in a lecture delivered by Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, in Tunis at the AfDB’s Temporary Relocation Agency. This effort, which is the responsibility of each African, will enable the continent’s natural resources to be developed and to ensure environmental protection.
22-Oct-2009 - Both the financial crisis and the economic slowdown have had a significant effect on developing countries. While the financial crisis did not directly affect the core economies of those countries, they were however touched by a decline in export levels, the amount of foreign aid, investment, direct foreign investment, and the remittance of funds.
