Outlooks / Economic growth
Jihad Azour November 3, 2020
The Middle East and North Africa responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with swift and stringent measures to mitigate its spread and impact but continue to face an uncertain and difficult environment.
Outlooks / Health
Papa N’Diaye October 22, 2020
The global pandemic has put intense pressure on economies across sub-Saharan Africa.
Outlooks / Commodities
PRITHA MITRA June 3, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa is on the front lines of climate change with extreme weather wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agricultural production.
Papa N’Diaye May 12, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing an unprecedented health and economic crisis that threatens to reverse much of the development progress it's made in recent years. The latest Regional Economic Outlook shows the economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year; the worst reading on record.
Jihad Azour May 4, 2020
No region has been spared the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. And with the high level of oil-dependency and informality of many countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, Jihad Azour says the economic impact of COVID-19 has been dramatic.
Outlooks / Macro-fiscal policy
VITOR GASPAR April 14, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds around the world, emergency government spending on things like health care and employment, as well as tax policy, are preserving lives and livelihoods.
Outlooks / Cross-sector
KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA April 9, 2020
IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva gives a preview of the World Economic Outlook to be released next week during the IMF's first-ever "virtual" Spring Meetings.
Abe Selassie March 27, 2020
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are taking sweeping measures to halt the advance of Covid-19, imposing limits on public gatherings and the like. But for the region's most vulnerable, social distancing is not realistic.
Ana Lucia Coronel January 29, 2020
South Africa is an important economy in sub-Saharan Africa and when growth is high the entire region benefits.
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