Zambia is endowed with abundant natural resources that include water, forests, wildlife, fertile land and mineral resources. Yet it is among the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDC). This is a condition from which the nation is striving to break away and to one day become a developed country....
The Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry of Zambia, through the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC), intends to build industrial clusters in seven Provinces2 across Zambia. This initiative, to be financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), will be implemented under the Skills...
African Development Bank Acting Chief Economist and Vice-President Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa was guest speaker at the annual lecture of the Nigerian Economic Society on Thursday, August 13. In his presentation, Kayizzi-Mugerwa presented a paper titled “Development State in Africa – The Quest for...
18-Aug-2015
AfDB’s Africa Information Highway selected as one of the most innovative data initiatives in the world
The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has selected the African Development Bank’s Africa Information Highway as one of the most innovative initiatives around the world to enable and inform...
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Donald Kaberuka, has urged Japanese businesses to take advantage of the comparative cost of labour to invest in mutually beneficial production in Africa. Speaking at the end of a two-day farewell visit to Tokyo, Kaberuka said both sides...
On July 10, 2015, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank approved the six-year Strategy of the African Natural Resources Center (ANRC). The Strategy is intended to operationalize the Center by spelling out the Center’s strategic approach to assisting governments in their...
The African Development Bank and the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) are poised to boost business opportunities in Africa’s cocoa sector, including youth employment and empowering women participation. Both institutions recently met in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in order to see how they can...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), in its meeting on June 24, 2015 in Abidjan, approved the institution’s Knowledge Management Strategy (KMS) for 2015-2020.
The vision of this Knowledge Management Strategy is for the AfDB to become the premier knowledge institution in...
Pays côtier situé dans la Corne de l’Afrique, Djibouti bénéficie d’une position géographique privilégiée, entre l’Afrique, l’Asie et l’Europe. Cependant, la République de Djibouti est particulièrement vulnérable aux menaces climatiques En dépit de l’amélioration des performances économiques...