The African Development Bank is poised to accelerate transformative programs and streamline operations to optimize results by leveraging a decade of prioritizing High Five objectives. Kalu Ojah, professor of finance at Wits Business School, University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, explored the various nuances of this bold strategy with African Currents.
"I must say, [the Bank's] President Akinwumi happens to be an agricultural economist, and he aptly captured the fact that it's one of our comparative advantages. And in terms of providing technical assistance and a roadmap on how African countries can then leverage or scale up agriculture from being a subsistence survivalist type resource to being one that puts out on the path of development, of which a very critical aspect is food security," Prof. Ojah says.
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