Historically, the competitive advantage of South Africa’s mining industry was in its access to low cost utilities and lower wages in the sector. Rising demand for residential housing, competitive bidding by labour unions in an environment of falling productivity, and a commodity cycle characterized...

Developed by the Bank’s Statistics Department, the portal will enhance data quality, management and dissemination in Africa Over the years, many African countries have significantly scaled up their data collection efforts, but challenges remain with regard to the timely dissemination...

African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka is paying an official visit to Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and Libreville in Gabon from February 24 to 27, 2014 to reiterate the Bank’s commitment to continue and further cooperation with both countries....

The Statistical Capacity Building Program of the African Development Bank responds to the needs of AfDB’s regional member countries (RMCs) as well as the Bank’s commitments in support of aid effectiveness, such as the Paris Declaration, the Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics (MAPS) and the Busan...

Key Messages • Held up against other regions, countries in North Africa today appear to have more in common than what they differ in, compared with the Nordic countries in the 1930s. The 1930s is remembered in the Nordic region as the decade of mass unemployment ; the incidence of poverty was...

On 19 February 2014, Mehdi Jomaa, head of the Tunisian government, and Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), met to discuss how to strengthen efforts to bring about sustainable development in Tunisia. Kaberuka took the opportunity to reiterate AfDB support for...

Transaction Highlights: The SEK 1 billion 5-year floating rate transaction was launched and priced on Monday 17th February at 3m Stibor flat. The transaction was subscribed in full by SPP, the wholly-owned Swedish Life Insurance and Asset Management company of Storebrand. The Swedish Krona...

The Board of Director of the African Development Bank  is holding its retreat on 20-21 February 2014 in Tunis, and will focus on Transformation through the private sector – Effective partnership and assistance to Africa’s private sector; The Next 50 years: the Africa we want; and Making a...

I am pleased to present this new edition of Capacity Focus. This magazine is intended to provide a platform for reflection and for sharing ideas around the role of Capacity Development in Africa’s transformation.