Africa: Annual Meetings 2024 - Better Allocating International Financial Resources to Speed Africa's Transformation

[African Development Bank (AfDB)] Back in February 2013 in Tunis, in response to a journalist who had asked her how the African Development Bank Group differed from other institutions, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then President of Liberia, replied, "simply the confidence it inspires. I can say without any hesitation that the Bank has played a decisive role in my country in the aftermath of the conflict. It gave us the confidence to believe that we could move on."