The African Development Bank (AfDB) has often been criticised for the time it takes to approve projects, but it responded at the Africa Investment Forum (AIF) in Johannesburg in November by bringing to the table a pipeline of 61 projects with a value of $40bn.…
The AfDB launched its Room2Run initiative last month which effectively freed up $700m off the bank’s balance sheet. …
Multilateral Development Banks (most commonly referred to as MDBs) were created around 70 years ago to spur the sustainable development of their member countries.…
Donald Kaberuka, the former President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), is now back in a big way with Southbridge, a merchant bank that he jointly manages with French-Beninese Lionel Zinsou who was Prime Minister of Benin from 2015-16.
In 2017 the African Development Bank (AfDB) made disbursements of $6.7bn, the most it has made in a single year.…
Africa, it could be argued, is one of the world’s last regions to meaningfully develop.…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is the world’s most honest development agency, according to the 2018 Aid Transparency Index, released in June.…
Industrialisation has been the mainstay of the majority of successful development stories around the world to date.…
Winners of the 2018 African Banker Awards have been announced at a prestigious Gala Dinner in Busan, South Korea.…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will officially launch the Africa Investment Forum (AIF) − on April 19, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Bank announced today.…
