Africa Growth Initiative

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA- Cleaning workers perform disinfection tasks in schools in Durban, South Africa on May 29, 2020. The South African government announced the reopening of the schools on June 1 after being closed for 3 months due to the pandemic of the coronavirus. (NO RESALE)

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: COVID-19, DRC, and African Development Bank updates

Chris Heitzig

Saturday, May 30, 2020

An employee closes coffee bags at the Central Kenya Coffee Mill near Nyeri, Kenya, March 15, 2018. Picture taken March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in focus

Industries without smokestacks: Constraints to growth

John Page

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Trucks queue as their drivers undergo health screening, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at the Namanga one stop border crossing point between Kenya and Tanzania in Namanga, Kenya, May 12, 2020. Picture taken May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Regional integration in Africa

Payce Madden

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

A vegetables seller waits for customers at Bara taxi rank, during a nationwide lockdown, aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Soweto, South Africa, April 23,2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Africa in focus

COVID-19 and the future of work in Africa: How to shore up incomes for informal sector workers

Louise Fox and Landry Signé

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Research

Interactive

African Leadership Transitions Tracker

Vera Songwe

Thursday, April 23, 2020

An employee of tech start-up Sendy, which offers online logistics services, works on her computer at their office in Nairobi, Kenya, October 30, 2018. Picture taken October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Report

Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A methodological framework

Haroon Bhorat, Caitlin Allen, Zaakhir Asmal, Robert Hill, and Christopher Rooney

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Currency symbols float over a map of Africa

Report

Illicit financial flows in Africa: Drivers, destinations, and policy options

Landry Signé, Mariama Sow, and Payce Madden

Monday, March 2, 2020

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Blog Posts

Members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) lift empty ballot boxes at a voting station during the Presidential, Legislative and Communal council elections, under the simmering political violence and the growing threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, in Gitega, Burundi May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Burundi, Benin, South Sudan, and COVID-19 updates

Christina Golubski

Saturday, May 23, 2020

A worker is seen sampling packaged phosphate at a packing warehouse at the Dorowa mine in Hwedza, Zimbabwe October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Africa in focus

The African Continental Free Trade Area and measures to facilitate trade could significantly mitigate COVID-19’s economic impact in Africa

Nassim Oulmane, Mustapha Sadni Jallab, and Patrice Rélouendé Zidouemba

Friday, May 22, 2020

A nurse attends to a child suffering from effects of drinking contaminated water from a well, at a hospital in Yaqshid district in Somalia's capital Mogadishu December 13, 2014. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA - Tags: FOOD HEALTH SOCIETY)

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Perceptions of health in sub-Saharan Africa before the pandemic

Chris Heitzig

Thursday, May 21, 2020

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Events

2020

Feb

Past Event

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

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Foresight Africa: Top priorities for Africa over the next decade

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

A framework for analyzing constraints to urban economic growth: Workshop

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Washington, DC

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Op-Eds

An aerial view shows rickshaw traffic in the downtown of Mogadishu, Somalia February 14, 2018. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Op-Ed

The economic resilience of African countries offers a template for growth in a post-COVID-19 era

Landry Signé

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Children look at an advocacy graffiti by the Mathare Roots's youth group against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Mathare Valley slum, in Nairobi, Kenya April 19, 2020. Picture taken April 19, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Sub-Saharan Africa

It’s time to help Africa fight the virus

Witney Schneidman

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA.- In the photo taken on March 29, 2020, People queued in front of grocery stores across the Western Cape on the first day of the closure due to the Coronavirus outbreak. South Africa announced its first two deaths from coronavirus on Friday as the number of cases in the country exceeded 1,000, at the start of a three-week quarantine.

Op-Ed

Africa needs debt relief to fight COVID-19

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Tidjane Thiam, Donald Kaberuka, Vera Songwe, Strive Masiyiwa, Louise Mushikiwabo, and Cristina Duarte

Thursday, April 9, 2020

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Experts

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Director - Africa Growth Initiative

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Landry Signé

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

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Multimedia

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

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the Prime Minister office after a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 18, 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS

Podcast Episode

What will Pompeo’s trip mean for US policy toward Africa?

Witney Schneidman and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

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