The concessional donor loan will support the 15th replenishment of the African Development Fund, approved in December 2019 by ADF donor countries February 17, 2021/AfDB The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the African Development Fund (ADF) – the concessional arm of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) – on […]
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History is made: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala chosen as Director-General
February 15, 2021/WTO WTO members made history today (15 February) when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General. When she takes office on 1 March, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first African to be chosen as […]
A Winding Road to Recovery for Latin America, Caribbean
February 12, 2021/IMF A WINDING ROAD TO RECOVERY FOR LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN Latin America and Caribbean economies face a resurging virus that threatens to thwart an uneven recovery, increase COVID-19 cases and deaths, and plunge more people into poverty, Alejandro Werner, the director of the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department, writes […]
