African Development Bank Current Affairs, GK & News
IMF to distribute SDR to member countries by August
The International Monetary Fund recently announced that it will distribute the Special Drawing Rights to its member countries by mid-August. Key Highlights The IMF has agreed to support SDR allocation of 650 million USD. This is the largest in the history of IMF. Recently, the G20 Finance Minsters agreed to the International Monetary Fund to ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs • International Current Affairs
Topics: African Development Bank • Asian Development Bank (ADB) • IMF • International Monetary Fund (IMF) • Special drawing rights
India to host the 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics
The 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS-VIII) will be organized by the Ministry of Agriculture in New Delhi from 18th to 21st November 2019. The conference will be inaugurated by the Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar and Chief Guest will be Bill Gates. The conference will be organised in collaboration with the Ministry of ..
Topics: African Development Bank • Eurostat • Food and Agriculture Organization • Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare • Organizations • Sustainable Development Goals • United Nations
African Continental Free Trade Agreement and India
At the summit of the African Union (AU) held at Niamey, the capital of the Niger Republic 54 of 55 of its member states signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) for goods and services and 27 countries have already ratified it. The AfCFTA would create an African Common Market of 1.2 billion people and ..
Topics: AfCFTA • African Continental Free Trade Agreement • African Development Bank • African Union • Continents • Economy • Free trade agreements • International trade • Jumia • Tariff • Trade blocs
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) signs pact Asian Development Bank to promote solar energy deployment in Asia & Pacific
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) has recently signed a cooperation arrangement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to promote solar energy deployment in Asia and the Pacific on March 10, 2018. The cooperation envisages solar power generation, solar based mini-grids and transmission systems for integrating solar energy into grids. The ISA and the ADB would ..
Topics: African Development Bank • Asian Development Bank • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank • Economy • Green Climate Fund • International Energy Agency • International Solar Alliance • Multilateral development banks • New Development Bank • Organizations • Sustainable energy