Updates

#AskLagarde: Lagarde Hosts Twitter Q&A, Monday, April 18, 2016

17/4/2016/IMF For your Information, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (@lagarde) will host a Twitter Q&A on the global economy on Monday, April 18, 2016, 1:00 to 1:30 pm ET.  The public has been invited to send questions via Twitter: #AskLagarde. 

Unprecedented Collaboration among Development Partners to Improve Infrastructure Implementation

16/4/2016/AfDB The inaugural Global Infrastructure Forum 2016 convening here today brings together for the first time the leaders of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) — African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank Group, Islamic Development […]

The future of Africa lies inside Africa

16/4/2016/AfDB “If we don’t fix Africa’s infrastructure financing gap – which we put at some US $60-70 billion a year – we will continue to take two percentage points off Africa’s annual growth rates. And we cannot allow that to happen,” said African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina at the […]