The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Donald Kaberuka, this week made an official visit to the Nordic member countries of the Bank Group to discuss the institution’s Strategy 2013-2022, its transformation agenda and the impeding return of the Bank to its headquarters in...

Event: Launching of the High Level Panel on Fragile States The IMF’s World Economic Outlook projects Africa’s real GDP growth for 2013 to be 5.7%. With average real growth rates in the advanced economies running at 1.3%, the African growth acceleration has caught widespread attention. A...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, and Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank Group, will lead a special high-level panel on fragile states in Monrovia on 2 September 2013. The panel will seek to answer the question, “How can we truly build peace and set a course for...

Event: AACB Symposium on Financial inclusion in Africa: The challenges of financial innovations for monetary policy and the stability of financial system I would like to thank you for the honour of inviting me to speak to you this evening here on the very beautiful island of Mauritius. It is the...

“What will it take for African exports to move up the global value chain?” This is the question that African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka posed to delegates and African Trade Ministers attending a session that he chaired on regional integration through trade facilitation during the...

On the heels of the US Treasury Development Impact Honors ceremony in Washington, DC, African Development Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, joined a radio debate on “The US, Africa and the Global Economy” on American University Radio (WAMU 88.5FM). He was joined by Lael Brainard, Under...

“It’s easy to be critical of development, especially in hard times at home,” said US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.“But today shows the very best it can do.” Setting out some of the core principles of US development support – “impacts not inputs”, “developing countries in the driver’s seat”, the...

Event: U.S. Department of the Treasury’s 2nd Annual Development Impact Honors, Washington DC, USA It is a tremendous honour to be here with my colleagues to receive these awards. This is the second time that we have come here for such an occasion, and I would like to express my deep...

Two outstanding African Development Bank (AfDB) initiatives, based in Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire, received Development Impact Honors on Thursday, July 25 from the US Treasury Department in an awards ceremony in Washington, DC. The AfDB is the first multilateral development bank (MDB) to receive...