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African Development Bank and Fund (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date April 18, 2001
Report Number RS20329
Report Type Report
Authors Raymond W. Copson, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The African Development Bank Group, including the Bank itself (AfDB) and its "soft-loan" affiliate, the African Development Fund (AfDF), is a development finance institution based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The Bank has 53 African members, as well as 24 non-regional members, including the United States. In the mid-1990s, the Bank faced management problems and difficulties arising from non-performing loans, but reforms launched in 1995 by a new Bank president, Omar Kabbaj, brought new pledges of support from the non-regionals. U.S. contributions to the Fund resumed in FY1998 and to the Bank in FY2000. This report will be updated as events warrant.