Africa Growth Initiative

Traffic passes along a street with buildings under construction in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, September 16, 2013. When global drinks giant Diageo bought a brewery in Ethiopia, it paid a premium for a stake in a barely tapped African market that in the 1980s had spectacularly failed to feed its own population. Ethiopia is now sub-Saharan Africa's fifth biggest economy, leap-frogging next door Kenya and wooing investors from Sweden, Britain and China, as other emerging markets lose some of their shine. Picture taken September 16, 2013. To match Insight ETHIOPIA-ECONOMY/ REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - GM1E99I040U01

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Governance and economic growth in Africa

Payce Madden

Thursday, May 23, 2019

A trader changes dollars with naira at a currency exchange store in Lagos

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Fiscal and debt sustainability in Africa

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Sunday, March 31, 2019

A man holds up his mobile phone showing a M-Pesa mobile money transaction page for the photographer at an open air market in Kibera in Kenya's capital Nairobi December 31, 2014. Safaricom, Kenya's biggest telecoms firm, is a model of how technology can be used to financially include millions of people with mobile telephones but without access to traditional infrastructure such as the banks that are available to the wealthy or those living in cities. Safaricom in 2007 pioneered its M-Pesa mobile money transfer technology, now used across Africa, Asia and Europe. It proved that money can be made from people who earn a few dollars a day. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TELECOMS) - GM1EACV1IZY01

Africa in focus

Beyond mobile payments: Going up the value chain of fintech in Africa

Amadou Sy

Monday, May 20, 2019

Student Rutendo Madziva reads by candlelight during an electrical power cut in Marondera, Zimbabwe, May 14, 2019. Picture taken May 14, 2019.REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC1F73894D30

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Kenya’s new eurobond, Zimbabwe’s rebased GDP, and Sudan, Benin, and Togo political updates

Christina Golubski

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Research

A trader changes dollars for naira at a currency exchange store in Lagos, Nigeria, February 12, 2015. REUTERS/Joe Penney/File Photo

Report

Is sub-Saharan Africa facing another systemic sovereign debt crisis?

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Dhruv Gandhi, and Lemma Senbet

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Lucia Mayta, 43, and her daughter Luz Cecilia, 12, pose for a photograph inside their bodega in La Paz February 24, 2014. Lucia studied until the fourth grade of primary school, and knows how to read and write and do basic math. Lucia runs a bodega, and the family live in a back room. She hopes to build a house in the future. Luz Cecilia is in seventh grade and wants to be a singer. On March 8 activists around the globe celebrate International Women's Day, which dates back to the beginning of the 20th century and has been observed by the United Nations since 1975. The UN writes that it is an occasion to commemorate achievements in women's rights and to call for further change. Picture taken February 24, 2014. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 11 OF 32 FOR PACKAGE 'WOMEN'S DAY - MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS' TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'REUTERS MOTHERS DAUGHTERS' - GM1EA370T5701

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Empowering women entrepreneurs in developing countries

Eyerusalem Siba

Friday, February 15, 2019

Schoolchildren look out at the central business district from atop the Kenya International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, August 25, 2015. REUTERS/Joe Penney - GF10000182190

Report

The new urban agenda and demographic dividend: Investments for Africa’s youth

Eyerusalem Siba

Thursday, January 31, 2019

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Blog Posts

A newspaper vendor counts out change for a customer in Durban, September 8, 2015. South Africa's rand firmed more than 1 percent against the dollar, recovering from record lows in the previous session as bets on a rate hike in United States faded due to worries over global growth. The rand rose 1.04 percent to 13.8150 per dollar. REUTERS/Rogan Ward - GF10000197505

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Domestic revenue mobilization in Africa

Dhruv Gandhi

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Workers pour brewing ingredients in a copper kettle at the Nile Brewery Company, 76 kilometres (46 miles) east of Uganda's capital Kampala, March 31, 2009. Big brewers operating in Africa may be slower to dismiss the threat from the global economic crisis that has caused economic havoc in the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere. Some brewers report a slowdown in sales growth, but they say Africa nevertheless offers rich expansion prospects compared with elsewhere, and even reduced growth on the continent will outstrip that of other regions this year. Picture taken March 31, 2009. To match feature BEER-AFRICA/ REUTERS/James Akena (UGANDA BUSINESS FOOD DRINK) - GM1E54H0PQE01

Africa in focus

Boosting domestic revenues through Tax Appeals Tribunals: Lessons from Uganda

Brian Sserunjogi and Corti Paul Lakuma

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Election officials seal ballot boxes at the end of voting in South Africa's parliamentary and provincial elections at a polling station in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 8,2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC197F6624B0

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Election results in South Africa, low wages in Ethiopia, and new World Bank funding for Africa

Payce Madden

Saturday, May 11, 2019

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Events

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Initiative pour la Croissance en Afrique - Recherches et Commentaires

Africa flags are blown in the wind as leaders arrive in Rwanda's capital, Kigali for the opening meeting for New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), February 13, 2004. African leaders are gathering for a two-day meeting to push forward a plan to monitor each other's performance on human rights, corruption and other issues, to counter the continent's reputation for bad governance. The African Union's 53 members agreed to set up the peer-review mechanism in 2002 but so far only 16 governments have agreed to be rated on criteria such as economic policy, commitment to democracy and business environment. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna REUTERS AN - RTRCNAA

Africa in focus

Quatre questions destinées au nouveau directeur de l’Africa Growth Initiative de Brookings

Christina Golubski and Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Storm clouds hover as a cyclist rides past a field of maize after late rains near Malawi's capital Lilongwe, February 1, 2016. Late rains in Malawi threaten the staple maize crop and have pushed prices to record highs.About 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RTX24Z7D

Africa in focus

Le tonnerre n’est pas toujours suivi de la pluie : Maintenir le progrès vers la réalisation de la vision pour l’Afrique

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Chadi Srour (in white shirt), technical director of real estate company Sipim, walks at a Sipim development site with his colleagues in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, September 15, 2015. From Abidjan’s packed airport arrivals hall to the buildings mushrooming across the capital, Ivory Coast is booming, a rare African bright spot as the world’s biggest cocoa producer bounces back from a 2011 civil war. Buyers of luxury apartments include Ivorians living overseas, while promoters from Morocco, Turkey and China are attracted by tax breaks. Elections - the source of national unrest four years ago - are due in a month but there is no let-up in investment given expectations of an easy victory for incumbent Alassane Ouattara. The government predicts 9.6 percent growth this year, making the former French colony the standout performer on a continent hammered by a slump in commodity prices, capital outflows and tumbling currencies. REUTERS/Joe PenneyPICTURE 17 OF 33 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "IVORY COAST IS BOOMING". SEARCH "BOOMING PENNEY" FOR ALL IMAGES - RTX1SEEB

Africa in focus

Point de vue prospectif sur l’Afrique: les potentiels obstacles à l’investissement à surveiller en 2017

Elizabeth Littlefield

Monday, March 6, 2017

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Experts

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Director - Africa Growth Initiative

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Eyerusalem Siba

Research Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

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Landry Signé

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

Financing Africa’s economic growth

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Lemma Senbet, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

U.S. first lady Melania Trump poses for a photo during her visit to Cape Coast.

U.S. Foreign Policy

Could Melania Trump’s visit to Africa repair US-Africa relations?

Landry Signé

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Photo: African leaders at Continental Free Trade Agreement signing

Podcast Episode

How Africa’s historic free trade agreement will change the continent

Witney Schneidman, Landry Signé, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

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Addressing Africa’s youth unemployment through industries without smokestacks

Is sub-Saharan Africa facing another systemic sovereign debt crisis?

CANCELLED – Kaizen: A management philosophy for advancing development in Africa

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Director - Africa Growth Initiative

Research Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative