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Research

A mine shaft is seen at the Tumela Mine , an Anglo American open pit mine located in the north-western part of South Africa in Thabazimbi, Limpopo province,June 9,2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTX2FWX5

Global Development

Closing the financing gap for African energy infrastructure: Trends, challenges, and opportunities

Amadou Sy and Amy Copley

April 17, 2017

Labourers work to reconstruct part of the Marina road in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos June 17, 2016.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RTX2GUQR

Global Development

Leveraging African pension funds for financing infrastructure development

Amadou Sy

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Developing Economies

Les pays exportateurs de pétrole en Afrique subsaharienne

Amadou Sy

Friday, March 3, 2017

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Blog Posts

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2017. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - RTS16RAU

Africa in focus

Notes from the G-20 High-Level Conference on the Compact with Africa

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank) President Jens Weidmann gives a keynote to the G20 Africa Partnership Investing in a Common Future Summit in Berlin, Germany June 13, 2017. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - RTS16TJU

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania present budgets, Germany hosts G-20 Africa conference, and Macron meets West African presidents

Mariama Sow

Friday, June 16, 2017

Subsistence farmer work their field of maize after late rains near the capital Lilongwe, Malawi February 1, 2016. Floods and an El Nino-triggered drought have hit the staple maize crop, exposing the fragility of Malawi's progress, which was partly rooted in a fertiliser grant for small-scale farmers that the government, now starved of donor funds, can ill afford. Picture taken February 1, 2016. Picture taken with fish-eye lens. To match Insight AFRICA-DROUGHT/MALAWI. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RTX25TB8

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Africa Nutrition Map

Mariama Sow

Thursday, June 15, 2017

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Events

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

@BSangafowaCoul

Eyerusalem Siba

Research Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

@EsibaSiba

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Multimedia

A woman stitches leather gloves at the Pittards world class leather manufacturing company in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa

Global Development

Is Africa still rising?

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Fred Dews

Friday, May 26, 2017

People crowd a street at the central business district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos ahead of Christmas December 23, 2016.

Developing Economies

Africa in 2017: Innovation, employment, and governance

Amadou Sy, Witney Schneidman, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Africa in focus

Thunder is not yet rain: Sustaining progress towards realizing Africa’s vision

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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Employees work on the manufacturing line at the United Aryan Export Processing Zone textile factory in Nairobi, Kenya April 13, 2017. Picture taken April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RTS13BCB

Business & Industry

Africa’s Race Against the Machines

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

June 16, 2017

China

Prospects for U.S.-China-Africa relations in the Trump era

Yun Sun

April 26,2017

A mine worker is pictured at the Freda Rebecca gold mine in Bindura town February 7, 2015. Mwana Africa's gold mine in Zimbabwe, Freda Rebecca, has asked the government to cut its electricity tariff by up to 28 percent because it says current rates are punitive, a company official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo (ZIMBABWE - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS COMMODITIES ENERGY) - RTR4OMPT

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: ECOWAS summit, South Africa’s recession, and China-Zambia mining tensions

Christina Golubski

Friday, June 9, 2017

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In defense of the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative

Ross outlines Trump’s commercial policy toward Africa

Africa in the news: ‘Famine’ label somewhat lifted, Solidarity Summit hails refugees, and CAR signs an unstable ceasefire

Figure of the week: Sub-Saharan African agricultural research spending trends

Research

Closing the financing gap for African energy infrastructure: Trends, challenges, and opportunities

Leveraging African pension funds for financing infrastructure development

Les pays exportateurs de pétrole en Afrique subsaharienne

Blog Posts

Notes from the G-20 High-Level Conference on the Compact with Africa

Africa in the news: Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania present budgets, Germany hosts G-20 Africa conference, and Macron meets West African presidents

Figure of the week: Africa Nutrition Map

Events

Macroeconomic developments and prospects in low-income developing countries

Foresight Africa: Top priorities for Africa in 2017

Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa: Leveraging the opportunities

Initiative pour la Croissance en Afrique - Recherches et Commentaires

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

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

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

Experts

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Director - Africa Growth Initiative

Eyerusalem Siba

Research Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

Multimedia

Is Africa still rising?

Africa in 2017: Innovation, employment, and governance

Thunder is not yet rain: Sustaining progress towards realizing Africa’s vision

More on Africa Growth Initiative

Africa’s Race Against the Machines

Prospects for U.S.-China-Africa relations in the Trump era

Africa in the news: ECOWAS summit, South Africa’s recession, and China-Zambia mining tensions