Hundreds of leaders and scholars from Africa and around the world will gather in Kigali, Rwanda, from October 30 to November 2 to debate the continent’s prospects for sustainable and inclusive growth in the context of the international economic crisis. Organized each year by the African...

The 8th African Development Forum (AFD VIII) opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday with a call on African countries to harness their huge natural resources for the benefit of their growing populations. Addressing participants at the opening ceremony, the African Development Bank (AfDB...

Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA), the Initiative for African Land Policy (LPI) and Section Support to the Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) of the ECA will organize a day of dialogue on natural resources management in Africa on October 22, 2012, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Entitled: "optimizing...

Experts and management of the African Development Bank Group are geared up for the eighth African Development Forum (AFD VIII) to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from October 23-25 on the theme “Governing and Harnessing Natural Resources for Africa’s Development.” The AFD, a biennial event of...

In today’s multifaceted economies, African economies will largely depend on sustainable local currency bond markets to function efficiently. With this need, local currency bond market development has taken center stage as a key focal aspect of economic growth. Taking place on 22-24 October...

The Programme objective is to strengthen governance and deepen the financial sector by diversifying instruments to improve access by the population and enterprises to financial services

The sudden overthrow of a democratically elected government in Mali in the spring of 2012 by a small group of military insurgents is symptomatic of the reemerging pattern of coups d’état which have hit Africa in recent years. So it happened that in March 2012, after enjoying twenty years of...

We build a political economy model of state policy choice highlighting the challenges to breaking barriers to the adoption of inclusive policies in Africa. We highlight necessary and sufficient conditions for a political leader to gain from implementing exclusive policies: (i) Implementing...

La Banque africaine de développement et le gouvernement du Bénin ont signé, mercredi 17 octobre 2012 à Tunis, un accord de prêt de 24 milliards de Francs CFA, en appui à la mise en œuvre des réformes économiques et financières du pays.   Le ministre de l’économie et des finances du Bénin,...