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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Making Entrepreneurship Easier

A new online system has made it easier for business owners to register their businesses and get licenses to operate
COVID-19

Monitoring Impacts, Informing Policy Responses

New brief highlights insights from the second wave of the Somalia COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Surveys (SHFPS).
ECONOMIC UPDATE

Investing in Health to Anchor Growth

As the country’s economy rebounds, strengthening its health system will be key to enhancing economic growth, new analysis shows.

Somalia At-A-Glance

A sustained period of political and institutional progress reflects a country transitioning out of fragility and protracted crisis. The 2011 Provisional Constitution, the 2012 establishment of the federal government, and the subsequent formation of five new Federal Member States are re-drawing Somalia’s new federal map and creating the space for a political development. 

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Digital Uplift Project

This project supports increased access to basic digital financial and government services targeting entrepreneurship and employment, particularly for women.

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Kristina Svensson

Country Manager, Somalia

Matthias Mayr

Senior Operations Officer, Somalia

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Apr 13, 2022

Africa’s Pulse

Since emerging from its first recession in 25 years, economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated at 4% in 2021, up by 0.7 percentage point from the October 2021 projections, and up from -2.0% in 2020.
Apr 13, 2022

CPIA Africa

The overall 2019 Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) score for the region’s 39 IDA-eligible countries came in at 3.1, the same as in the previous three years, in a context of moderating per capita growth. ...
IDA in Africa

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.
World Bank Africa Multimedia

Watch, listen and click through the latest videos, podcasts and slideshows highlighting the World Bank’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa.