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CGD Podcast: The Future of the African Development Bank with Three Presidential Candidates
Karen Mathiasen
April 24, 2025
Ahead of the African Development Bank's presidential election in May, CGD's Karen Mathiasen and AfriCatalyst's Daouda Sembene interview three of the candidates – Amadou Hott, Samuel Munzele Maimbo, and Bajabulile Swazi Tshabalala – on their priorities for the Bank and their views on how to help stee...
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Too Small to Succeed: Reforming the AfDB’s Financial Governance
Clemence Landers
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Nancy Lee
October 29, 2019
Why isn’t the African Development Bank Group bigger? Clemence Landers and Nancy Lee have a proposal to reform the bank and increase its size and impact.
BRIEF

ABCs of the IFIs: The African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development
Scott Morris et al.
October 11, 2019
WORKING PAPER

The Dilemma of the African Development Bank: Does Governance Matter for the Long-Run Financing of the MDBs? - Working Paper 498
Nancy Birdsall
November 29, 2018
Does governance matter for the long-run financing and effectiveness the multilateral development banks? Does their system of weighted voting matter for their long-run access to financing and their effectiveness as development institutions? Does the voting structure involve some tradeoff between the ...