Africa Growth Initiative

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Al Dardeery Mohamed Ahmed and his delegation leave the U.S. Treasury Department after negotiations on the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, situated on the border between Ethiopia and Sudan, in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC206D9D9GFM

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: U.S. – Africa updates, South Sudan unity government, and Mauritius elections

Dhruv Gandhi

Saturday, November 9, 2019

Africa in focus

The future of work in Africa: Opportunities and challenges of digital technologies

Dhruv Gandhi

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Farm workers walk between rows of vegetables at a farm in Eikenhof, South Africa, October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC14F0E641A0

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Opportunities for public finance in Africa

Payce Madden

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Africa in focus

A conversation with Somali Finance Minister Abdirahman Duale Beileh on economic adjustment in fragile African states

Payce Madden

Monday, November 4, 2019

Research

Women pick unwanted coffee beans from the final product just before packaging in Holiso cooperative of Shebedino district in Sidama, Ethiopia November 30, 2018. Picture taken November 30, 2018. REUTERS/Maheder Haileselassie - RC1A79217960

Report

Supporting small informal businesses to improve the quality of jobs in Africa

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Tuesday, October 8, 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

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

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Blog Posts

Women supporters show the Oromo protest gesture outside Jawar Mohammed's house, an Oromo activist and leader of the Oromo protest in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC1B3C3DA6E0

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: South Africa’s and Kenya’s rising fiscal deficits, AfDB’s capital increase, and Ethiopia in turmoil

Dhruv Gandhi

Saturday, November 2, 2019

A man rests on a mini truck loaded with bagged food-stuff at a internal displaced persons (IDP) camp during the official flag-off of food and relief materials distribution for the internal displaced persons in Nigerian city of Maiduguri, June 8, 2017.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RC1CF1A1DD10

Africa in focus

The effects of Nigeria’s closed borders on informal trade with Benin

Stephen Golub, Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, and Christina Golubski

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

A policeman stands guard atop rocks overlooking the proposed Dangote oil refinery site during a facility tour near Akodo beach in the outskirt of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos June 25, 2016. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - S1BETLZHQAAA

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Government domestic arrears rise for oil-exporters in sub-Saharan Africa

Dhruv Gandhi

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

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Events

2019

Oct

Past Event

Using extractive industry data to fight inequality & strengthen accountability: Victories, lessons, future directions for Africa

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

The future of work in Africa: Opportunities and challenges of digital technologies

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

Economic adjustment in conflict-affected and fragile states in Africa: Lessons from Somalia

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

Washington, DC

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Op-Eds

A woman sits near food items displayed for sale at a market in Abuja, Nigeria October 10, 2019. Picture taken October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC116DF3C490

Op-Ed

Nigeria’s Benin border closure and what it means for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

Landry Signé and Colette van der Ven

Monday, November 4, 2019

Posters of Russian President Vladimir Putin hang on the streets of Egypt's capital ahead of his meeting with his Egyptian counterpart President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo, Egypt December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC119911E330

Op-Ed

Vladimir Putin is resetting Russia’s Africa agenda to counter the US and China

Landry Signé

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

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

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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

EsibaSiba

Landry Signé

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

LandrySigne

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Multimedia

Africa in focus

A conversation with Guinean President Condé on natural resource management in Africa

Christina Golubski

Thursday, October 3, 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

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

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