Africa Growth Initiative

A customer uses her cell-phone to access the Sidian Bank mobile-app inside the banking hall at the Sidian Bank headquarters on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Taxing mobile transactions in Kenya

Dhruv Gandhi

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Names of missing Chibok school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgency five years ago are displayed during the 5th year anniversary of their abduction, in Abuja, Nigeria April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC19E45DE390

Africa in focus

Beneath the Tamarind Tree: Nigeria and the resilience of the Chibok Girls

Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

A customer uses the AliExpress app on a mobile phone, after Safaricom secured a deal to use its M-Pesa mobile payment service for online shopping on one of Alibaba's platforms, at their offices in Nairobi, Kenya March 12, 2019. REUTERS/George Nganga - RC17EC4C3010

Report

Taxing mobile phone transactions in Africa: Lessons from Kenya

Njuguna Ndung’u

Monday, August 5, 2019

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi poses for a photograph after presenting a gift to Paramount Chief of Cape Coast traditional area, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, during her visit to a palace used by the Chief after her tour at the Cape Coast Castle which was used as a trading post from where slaves would be taken to America, in Ghana July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC14F026AA40

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Mauritania’s new President Ghazouani, Mozambique’s peace deal, and Pelosi and US delegation’s visit to Ghana

Payce Madden

Saturday, August 3, 2019

Research

Flags fly over the Federal Reserve Headquarters on a windy day in Washington, U.S., May 26, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC1E2991B8B0

Report

Emerging market capital flows and US monetary policy

John Clark, Nathan Converse, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Steven Kamin

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Photo: African leaders at Continental Free Trade Agreement signing

Report

Keys to success for the AfCFTA negotiations

Landry Signé and Colette van der Ven

Thursday, May 30, 2019

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

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Blog Posts

Students eat at a school canteen in N'zikro, Aboisso, Ivory Coast, October 27, 2015. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - GF20000035378

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Africa’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals

Payce Madden

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

An internally displaced woman from drought hit area carries a jerrycan of water as she walks towards her shelter at a makeshift settlement area in Dollow, Somalia April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC13A0B69130

Africa in focus

Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals: A long way to go

Belay Begashaw

Monday, July 29, 2019

Men walk past electricity pylons as they return from work in Orlando, Soweto township, South Africa March 18, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1C1FC73920

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: South Africa bails out Eskom, Kenya Airways is nationalized, and Kenya and Namibia announce green energy plans

Payce Madden

Saturday, July 27, 2019

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Events

2019

Jul

Past Event

Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A discussion on Nigeria and the resilience of the Chibok girls

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Engaging businesses and enhancing US participation: Priorities for Prosper Africa

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT

A conversation with African diaspora business leaders on Prosper Africa

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

Washington, DC

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Op-Eds

Fishermen take their lunch in front of fishing boats as container ships cross the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in Ismailia port city, northeast of Cairo, Egypt, Egypt October 31, 2018. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RC1BDB7685C0

Op-Ed

The high growth promise of an integrated Africa

Landry Signé and Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

Friday, August 2, 2019

A tobacco farmer checks his mobile phone at the start of the selling season at Tobacco Sales Floor in Harare, Zimbabwe, March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC15DE969D80

Op-Ed

Making globalization work for Africa

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Thursday, May 30, 2019

White House Advisor Ivanka Trump walks with the President of the women association Bamba Awa, as she meets women entrepreneurs, at the demonstration cocoa farm in Adzope, Ivory Coast April 17, 2019. REUTERS/Luc Gnago - RC1F706B5990

Op-Ed

A Trump visit to Africa is important—and carries some urgency

Landry Signé

Friday, April 19, 2019

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Experts

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Director - Africa Growth Initiative

BSangafowaCoul

Eyerusalem Siba

Research Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

EsibaSiba

Landry Signé

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

LandrySigne

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Multimedia

General view of the port terminal in Algiers, Algeria March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC1308CF2410

Podcast Episode

How will the Continental Free Trade Area transform Africa?

Landry Signé

Friday, May 31, 2019

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

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