The Fund for Africa Private Sector Assistance (FAPA) hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) signed on March 5, 2015 in Abidjan a seed equity investment of US $400,000 to Africlear Global. The goal of the investment is to enhance the efficiency of capital markets by supporting the...

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...

A landmark global development agenda was worked out last week in Washington, DC and African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka was at the centre of the conversation. From pledging US $300 million in added funding to fight Ebola, to helping define the global development agenda,...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) participated at the Validation Meeting for the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Acceleration Strategy Action Plan (PAS) and the preparatory meeting for the launching of the Continental...

The African Development Bank’s Transition Support Department (ORTS) hosted jointly with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) the launching of the 2015 edition of the OECD report States of Fragility 2015: Meeting Post-2015 Ambitions on Wednesday, April 8 in the...

A High Level Consultation gathering took place on Wednesday, March 25 at the African Development Bank headquarters in Abidjan to discuss solutions to ending the energy problem in Comoros. The meeting has cited the important role the private sector can play in the country’s ailing energy industry...

Uganda is poised to establish its national community of practice on managing for development results from March 26-27, 2015 at the Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala. Spearheaded by the Office of the Prime Minister, the learning and planning event will prove essential to consolidating country...

The issue of enhancing trade is key to helping African countries become emerging economies, African Development Bank’s Acting Chief Economist and Vice-President said during the recent International Conference on the Emergence of Africa. “Creating favourable terms for trade and enhancing trade...

This work is the result of the joint commitment of the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The Government expressed the wish to have an objective diagnostic analysis of economic growth focused on the main...