Event: Bank of Uganda The topic of our conversation today relates to a challenge facing all African countries; not just Uganda. That is economic transformation, which is not the same thing as economic growth and I will also speak about our role at the African Development Bank. I may not say...

The Crucial Role of Independent Evaluation On Monday, 3 December, 2012, the AfDB Evaluation Week was launched by Donald Kaberuka, AfDB President; His Excellency Tertius Zongo, Former Prime Minster of Burkina Faso; Executive Director, Samy Zaghloul, Chair of the Bank’s Committee on Development...

Africa needs to pay special attention to inclusive growth by creating youth employment, improving agricultural output and investing in quality education and infrastructure. In a well-attended public lecture delivered in Kampala, Uganda, the President said the continent’s demographics pointed to...

Participants at the closing session of the seventh African Economic Conference, on November 2, 2012 in Kigali, Rwanda, urged African leaders to put in place bold economic reforms, aimed at sustaining growth and boosting human development. The four-day conference highlighted the...

The African Economic Conference continued, Wednesday, October 31 in Kigali, Rwanda, with debates on public finance, led by high-profile speakers, conversant with public finance. The World Bank’s Chief Economist for Africa Region, Shantayanan Devarajan, spoke on frameworks for...

Africa must invest in quality education in order to stop children from inheriting poverty from generation to generation, African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka told leaders gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, on Tuesday, October 30, during the opening day of the seventh Africa Economic...

Event: Opening Session of the African Economic Conference 2012 First point: why another conference? You would be right to ask the question. After all, there are numerous, endless seminars, workshops, symposia on a whole range of African issues, events which many of us in this room are condemned...

The 7th edition of the African Economic Conference (AEC) is gearing up for huge rush of leaders and scholars from Africa and around the world to come to Kigali, Rwanda. This year’s AEC will be held from October 30 to November 2, 2012 on the theme of the continent’s prospects for...

Hundreds of leaders and scholars from Africa and around the world will gather in Kigali, Rwanda, from October 30 to November 2 to debate the continent’s prospects for sustainable and inclusive growth in the context of the international economic crisis. Organized each year by the African...