Monday, June 20, 2011

Putting microfinance money into Africa’s women still works


Inclusion was the big theme of the African Development Bank annual meeting in Lisbon last week, an acknowledgment that impressive economic growth numbers don’t tell the whole story.

As the president of the AfDB, Donald Kaberuka, acknowledged at the start of proceedings, the bank had got it wrong in Tunisia and Egypt – although as one bank official pointed out, good things had been accomplished in Tunisia by President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in terms of infrastructure and education, but less so on unemployment.

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