In a joint declaration issued in Tunis, Tunisia, on 19 July 2013, African institutions endorsed the AfDB’s Africa50 Fund as Africa’s vehicle to facilitate large-scale mobilization of resources and to unlock international private financing with a view to addressing Africa’s infrastructure gap....

Executive Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group hosted the heads of Africa’s political, economic and development institutions on Friday, 19 July 2013 in Tunis, kick- starting a day-long round table on how to scale up infrastructure financing for the continent’s transformation in...

In a meeting held on 19 July 2013 in Tunis, Tunisia heads of key African economic and development institutions committed to working towards filling Africa’s infrastructure financing gap.  African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma, United Nations Economic Commission...

Event: AfDB/AU/UNECA Roundtable on Financing Africa’s Infrastructure I want to begin by commending your achievements, each one in your respective mandates as heads of regional economic commissions and leaders of sub-regional financial institutions. The progress Africa has been making is in...

‘Scaling up of infrastructure financing in line with Africa’s vision for the next 50 years” is the theme of a round table that will take place in Tunis, Tunisia on 19 July 2013. The aim of the roundtable is to rationalize approaches and foster synergies so as to optimize the impact of the various...

The reliability of economic statistics is a crucial concern now that African development is gathering pace and foreign investors need reassurance that they can rely on African statistics. This report, titled ‘Situational Analysis of the Reliability of Economic Statistics in Africa – Special Focus...

For the fifth time the African Development Bank was a co-organizer of the Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) along with UN agencies, the World Bank and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). This important forum was held from July 3-5, 2013 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Given the challenges of...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) encourages North African countries to find ways of building resilience against crises that could threaten economic and social stability. In its 2013 Annual Report on North Africa, the Bank stresses the need to focus on inclusive development in order to tackle...

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