On the eve of the African Development Bank Annual Meetings in Abidjan, an independent Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference kicked off the week on Sunday, May 24 at the Sofitel Hotel Ivoire. The aim of the TEDx Abidjan event: to showcase innovative solutions and approaches to...
La dernière crise de 2013 et 2014 a été la plus meurtrière de l’histoire de la RCA (environ 2000 morts) et a engendré le déplacement d’un cinquième de la population (700 000 déplacés) et des migrations dans les pays voisins (environ 400 000 personnes) et plus de 65 000 personnes évacuées. Elle a...
L’objectif sectoriel du programme est de Contribuer au renforcement des moyens d’existence durables des populations affectées par la crise politico-militaire et à la cohésion sociale. De manière spécifique, le programme vise à : (i) renforcer les infrastructures scolaires et sanitaires et donc,...
05-May-2015
Delivering on the promise: Launch of AfDB-Gates Foundation report on extractives and human development
“Africa needs to adopt policies to transform its natural resources into human capital and better living standards for its citizens and learn from the existing good practices on the continent.” These were the words of African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka, at the launch of the report “...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group meeting in Abidjan, approved a US $30-million sector budget support grant towards the protection of basic social services in Malawi.
The African Development Fund (ADF) grant is timely in view of the fiscal pressures faced by the...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group meeting in Abidjan, approved a US $30-million sector budget support grant towards the protection of basic social services in Malawi.
The African Development Fund (ADF) grant is timely in view of the fiscal pressures faced by the...
The African Development Bank has published a new report on North Africa entitled "Does Foreign Direct Investment Improve Welfare in North African Countries?" Supported by analysis and quantitative data, the report confirms the close links between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the quality of...
How can the Ivorian Government and the private sector combine their efforts to attract investment, raise capital and finance enterprises, to ensure the country's progress towards emergence by 2020? To respond to the question, the Government, in partnership with the African Development Bank Group...
Africa has made strong economic gains over the past decade, with real GDP growth averaging above 5 %. However, this growth has not been very transformative, particularly in creating large scale formal jobs (Page and Shimeles, 2014). Weak job creation has in turn slowed down the pace of poverty...