On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 the African Development Bank (AfDB) successfully issued a new a USD 1 billion three-year global benchmark due on May 15, 2017.
The benchmark was announced on March 4, 2014 for execution the following day. Overnight, the joint lead managers gathered more than USD 1.5...
The path out of poverty in agrarian countries in Africa lies in their ability to provide equitable access to productive assets-land, credit, livestock, health and education to name a few. No less important is the duty of policymakers to examine gendered differences in the use, control and ownership...
A new joint publication prepared by the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies (ITCEQ), the Centre for Research on Economic Development and International Finance (DEFI) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) analyzes the main barriers to improving the competitiveness of the...
Note: the CSP will be published as soon as it is finalised.
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, February 5 in Tunis approved Swaziland’s Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for 2014-2018, which focuses on promoting economic growth and improving living...
Following the financial crisis of 2008-09 and the deepening of the Euro-zone crisis in 2012, global protectionist measures dramatically rose harming the commercial interest of LDCs. Subsequent to the G20 summit held in November 2008 to discuss the effects of the global financial crisis close to 200...
African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President Donald Kaberuka spoke at the Opening Ceremony of the 4th “Invest in Côte d’Ivoire Forum” in Abidjan on January 29 in the presence of the Ivoirian Prime Minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, and political and economic representatives from Côte d’Ivoire and...
29-Jan-2014
Statement at "Invest in Côte d’Ivoire Forum – ICI 2014" by the AfDB President Donald Kaberuka
Event: International Forum on Investments in Côte d'Ivoire
The presence here this morning of so many economic actors of various backgrounds is a strong symbol, a symbol of the rebirth of the Ivorian economy after a decade of recession. The African Development Bank, through my presence, is...
For at least two decades, central banks have been using various Early Warning Systems (EWS) to monitor the risk of bank runs and failures. However, the repeated occurrence of banking crises during this period including the Asian crisis, the Russian bank crisis the Brazilian bank crisis and the most...
The success of an economy depends critically on the extent to which market structure, business climate and institutions promote the allocation of inputs to more productive businesses. Correspondingly, superior firm productivity brings about business dynamism critical for a country’s economic...