The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership ... This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 99/51 "Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa." Citations for the ...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, disability data recently collected through regular household surveys in Botswana, Gabon, Lesotho, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe ...

In addition to a high level of import reliance and as a result of factors outlined above, downstream supply chain stakeholders such as importers, wholesalers, sub-wholesalers and retailers each ...

Many sub-Saharan African countries have made substantial progress with economic reforms in the 1990s. They have reduced fiscal and current account deficits ... discussions could eclipse the issues of ...

The October 2024 edition of Africa’s Pulse reports a fragile economic recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa, with growth projected at 3% in 2024, up from 2.4% in 2023, driven by increased private consumption ...

Despite rapid growth in many African economies over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa remains the world’s poorest region. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than a third of the population ...

There are 45 nations on the United Nations’ global list of “Least Developed Countries”; 33 (72%) are located in Africa. These countries face enormous problems, including low income levels ...

One of the biggest challenges facing sub-Saharan African nations is how to ... Fred de Sam Lazaro: Other Africa-based aid groups echo the complaints against the large USAID contractors, but ...

In sub-Saharan ... facing the development of AI on the African continent, the most pressing may be the lack of infrastructure—both technological and regulatory. “Internet connectivity in ...