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Learn more about the World Bank Group’s response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Learn more about the World Bank Group’s response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Through social inclusion and the private sector, this project aims to help the country achieve more sustainable and inclusive growth.
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Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to have contracted by 2.0% in 2020, closer to the lower bound of the forecast in April 2020.
Africa’s poorest countries saw little to no progress on average in improving the quality of their policy and institutional frameworks in 2018.
With IDA’s help, hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty—through the creation of jobs, access to clean water, schools, roads, nutrition, electricity, and more.
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The Doing Business report provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. See where your country ranks.