COVID-19
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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Albert Zeufack, Chief Economist for the World Bank Africa Region, takes a look at Africa’s development over the past decade.
Country Director, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros and Seychelles, Eastern and Southern Africa
Senior Economist
The World Bank supports Mauritius in its path to economic and social development. The purpose of this update is to inform policy debate by sharing some of the thinking on global issues that could be important.
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.
Watch, listen and click through the latest videos, podcasts and slideshows highlighting the World Bank’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Doing Business report provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. See where your country ranks.