Africa Growth Initiative

Brighton Takawira uses the Mukuru remittance app which enables him to send money and groceries home to family in Zimbabwe from his home in Pinetown, South Africa, October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Rogan Ward

Africa in Focus

COVID-19 and migrant remittances: Supporting this essential lifeline under threat

Wafa Aidi, Razaq Fatai, and Stephen Karingi

Monday, October 26, 2020

Women wait to cast their ballots at a polling station during the Guinea's presidential election in Fria, Guinea October 18, 2020. REUTERS/Saliou Samb NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Guinea, Sudan, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire updates

Payce Madden

Saturday, October 24, 2020

Nairobi, Kenya - April 28 2018: People walking along a busy street in the crowded down town of Nairobi City, Kenya, East Africa

Africa in Focus

US foreign policy toward Africa: An African citizen perspective

E. Gyimah-Boadi, Landry Signé, and Josephine Appiah-Nyamekye Sanny

Friday, October 23, 2020

A woman carries her protective mask in her hands as hundreds of thousands of the Senegalese Mouride Brotherhood pilgrims gather for the annual Grand Magal festival, as the global spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in the holy city of Touba, Senegal October 5, 2020. Picture taken October 5, 2020. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Africa in Focus

Figures of the week: Mobility in some African countries has recovered to pre-pandemic levels

Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Research

Report

Urban economic growth in Africa: A framework for analyzing constraints to agglomeration

John Page, Jeffrey Gutman, Payce Madden, and Dhruv Gandhi

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Johannesburg, South Africa - September 7 2016: Industrial Valve Manufacturing and Assembly Factory Facility

Report

Africa’s ‘youth employment’ crisis is actually a ‘missing jobs’ crisis

Louise Fox, Philip Mader, James Sumberg, Justin Flynn, and Marjoke Oosterom

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Factory officials take samples of cocoa beans at a cocoa processing factory in Ile-Oluji village in Ondo state, southwest Nigeria March 29, 2016. Picture taken March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - GF10000374278

Report

Leveraging the employment potential of industries without smokestacks

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

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Blog Posts

Kasese, Kasese / Uganda - Apr 15, 2017: Cargo trucks passing Uganda Border

Africa in Focus

The countdown to implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area in East Africa

Andrew Mold

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators carry banners during a protest over alleged police brutality, in Lagos, Nigeria October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Upcoming election in Guinea, debt suspension extension, and protests in Nigeria and Namibia

Chris Heitzig

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Hands holding Nigerian naira notes and leather wallet

Africa in Focus

Figures of the week: Taxation in Africa over the last century

Payce Madden

Thursday, October 15, 2020

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Events

2020

Jul

Past Event

Unlocking Africa’s business potential

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Youth employment through industries without smokestacks: Workshop 3

8:30 AM - Friday Jun 19, 2020 12:00 PM EDT

Understanding the drivers of inequality in Africa and implications for human development

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Washington, DC

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Op-Eds

A worker is seen at a production line within the Shona Textiles Export Processing Zone (EPZ) as they make protective face masks, as a measure to stem the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Athi River near Nairobi, Kenya April 14, 2020. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

Op-Ed

Global partnerships for an African recovery

Landry Signé, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Joyce Banda, Rosalía Arteaga Serrano, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Laimdota Straujuma, Yves Leterme, and Rovshan Muradov

Friday, October 9, 2020

Op-Ed

The ‘great reset’ requires agile governance

Landry Signé, Addisu Lashitew, and Sanjeev Khagram

Friday, September 11, 2020

A woman has her face scanned by a facial recognition device that identifies people when they wear masks to gain access to the office of the Chinese electronics manufacturer Hanwang (Hanvon) Technology in Beijing as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), China, March 6, 2020. Picture taken March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Op-Ed

The new urgency of global tech governance

Landry Signé, Mark Esposito, and Sanjeev Khagram

Thursday, September 10, 2020

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Experts

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Director - Africa Growth Initiative

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Landry Signé

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

LandrySigne

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Multimedia

Container ships wait to load and offload goods in port in Cape Town, South Africa.

Global Economy

Africa’s roadmap for long-term economic growth

Landry Signé and David Dollar

Monday, June 29, 2020

Locals walk at a mall as South Africa starts to relax some aspects of a stringent nationwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in Soweto, South Africa, May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Podcast Episode

Contemplating COVID-19’s impact on Africa’s economic outlook with Landry Signé and Iginio Gagliardone

Landry Signé

African Tech Roundup

Monday, May 4, 2020

Global Trade

How to ensure Africa has the financial resources to address COVID-19

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and David Dollar

Monday, May 4, 2020

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