Tunis, 5 November 2010 – Distinguished delegates drawn from African governments, international organizations, parliaments and civil society agreed on Friday, 5 November 2010 in Tunis that the time had come for African countries to rely more on their internal resources; such as taxation, the...
Event: Second Regional Meeting on Aid Effectiveness
In 12 months’ time we will assemble with our international partners and developing countries from around the world in Busan, Korea, for the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. There we will have an opportunity to define the...
Africa Should Reduce Aid-Dependency and Explore Alternative Sources of Development Finance – AfDB President Donald Kaberuka
“To increase resource mobilization and broaden their tax base, African states need to persuade their citizens that their taxes are being used for public good. Many...
Tunis, 4 November 2010 - Africa must reduce aid-dependency and foster new alternative sources of development finance, the African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, has said.
Speaking at the opening of a two-day Second Regional Meeting on Aid Effectiveness on Thursday, 4...
Event: Africa-China Poverty Reduction and Development Conference co-hosted by the UNDP, Government of Ethiopia and the China International Poverty Reduction Centre
Last month, many of us were in New York for the MDG Summit to take stock of where we are ahead of 2015. It was clear to all and...
Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai, has underscored the importance of good governance in the effective and sustainable management of the continent’s natural resources. Speaking in Tunis, Tunisia, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, within the framework of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Eminent...
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Fifth African Economic Conference Opens with Calls for Cooperation and Partnership with Africa
Partnership and cooperation were two of the watchwords at the opening session of the Fifth African Economic Conference on 27 October 2010 in Tunis. The distinguished speakers at the session also expressed some caution over the austerity programmes and spending cuts among...
Event: AfDB-ECA African Economic Conference
The AEC was initially conceived in 2006 as a purely African Development Bank initiative to bring together Africa’s economists in Africa, in the diaspora, in the universities, in think tanks, in policy making organs, and, of course, our own...
Wole Soyinka: "Reversing Brain Drain is Key to Africa’s Development"
The first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Wole Soyinka, has said that the reversal of Africa’s brain drain is key to the continent’s development. The Nigerian literary icon and civic activist made the statement at...