Despite Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow recovery this year, a new World Bank report predicts accelerated growth to 3.3% in 2020.
Chief Economist Albert Zeufack and Professor Haroon Bhorat discuss what’s behind inequality across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Weigh in on the WBG’s first formal strategy for addressing the drivers of fragility, conflict and violence in affected countries.
The Power Interconnector Project for Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea aims to reduce electricity costs and increase supply and export capability.
While fragility is holding back economic growth, the latest Africa’s Pulse says that digital transformation is the way forward.
In Five Charts: Understanding the Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment report for 2017.
With help from IDA, between 2012 and 2015, the share of people living on less than $1.90/day dropped from 43% to 35%.
Read the World Bank’s plan to support African countries to strengthen the quantity, efficiency and impact of investments in people.
