Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions
The 2020 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period January to December 2019. The addition of Somalia brought the number of the region’s International Development Association (IDA)–eligible countries to 39. The overall 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. The average scores for most of the CPIA clusters trended down in 2019. While the average scores for the economic management cluster was unchanged from last year’s assessment, the average scores for the other three clusters—structural policies, social inclusion, and public management and institutions—have declined, indicating that the quality of policies and institutions in the region’s IDA countries weakened in 2019
