The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), together with the Rwandan government and parliament is holding a special Parliamentary conference on Private Sector Development in Africa on 14 and 15 March in Rwanda.
The conference is organised in...
Capacity building seminar on complex commercial transactions successful – African lawyers say
AfDB briefs west and central African lawyers on its structure, policies and operations
Stabilization Clause in oil investment contracts : We must keep positive, but be cautious in negotiations...
Le séminaire régional de la Facilité africaine de soutien juridique (FASJ) et de l’Union panafricaine des avocats (PALU), s’est ouvert le 12 mars 2012 à Yaoundé, au Cameroun, sous la présidence de Me Akere Muna, président de l’Union panafricaine des avocats. Le ministre de la justice du Cameroun...
Japan’s vice-minister of finance for international affairs, Mr Takehiko Nakao, visited the African Development Bank (AfDB) on 8 March 2012, and held talks with the AfDB president, Donald Kaberuka, on various issues related to development in Africa.
He noted the fact that the African economy was...
AfDB president Donald Kaberuka had talks this week in Tunis with the Vice President of the International Finance Corporation, Mr Jingdong Hua, on joint projects in Africa between the two institutions, focusing on mechanisms for financing such projects in local currencies.
Mr Hua commented on the...
The African Development Bank (AfDB), rated Aaa/AAA/AAA, today announced that it will offer an Education Support Bond to Japanese retail investors. The bond will be distributed by Tokai Tokyo Securities, Nishimura Securities, Banyo Securities and Rakuten Securities.
The issuance of a 3-year...
The African Governance Outlook (AGO), a collaborative initiative between the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) aims to provide an effective African-based diagnostic tool on financial governance on a regional scale. ACBF has a mandate to...
A high level seminar on aid allocation systems in Africa organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and hosted by the Mauritian government ended on 17 February with a consensus on the principles for guiding the adaptation of AfDB’s aid allocation system to the changing financial and economic...
The purpose of this study is to provide an empirical analysis of some of the impacts of international financial integration on economic activity and macro-economic volatility in African countries. While dominant economic theory suggests that capital account liberalization has a more or less...