Africa Growth Initiative

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

Passengers board a South African Airways the capital aircraft t the Hosea Kutako International Airport, outside Windhoek in Namibia, February 24, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1B88ACF170

Africa in focus

Africa in the News: Tanzania seizes diamond shipment, Biafra separatists clash with Nigerian army, and South African Airways cuts flights

Mariama Sow

Friday, September 15, 2017

Construction workers direct a crane at the Radisson hotel site in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, September 12, 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 14 OF 33 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "IVORY COAST IS BOOMING". SEARCH "BOOMING PENNEY" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000219116

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: China’s rebalancing and African growth

Amy Copley

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Opposition supporters walk along the street during the protest calling for the immediate resignation of President Faure Gnassingbe in Lome, Togo, September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer - RC19F77FC770

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: South Africa and Nigeria exit recession, Kenya prepares for election re-run, and Togo and Cameroon protest

Amy Copley

Friday, September 8, 2017

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Events

A conversation with the Young African Leaders Initiative’s Mandela Washington Fellows

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

The evolving US diplomatic and foreign aid budget: What do these changes mean for Africa?

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT

Macroeconomic developments and prospects in low-income developing countries

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Washington, DC

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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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An employee uses a money counting machine as she serves a customer inside a mobile phone care centre operated by Kenyan's telecom operator Safaricom; in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RTX2DU5T

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: New findings in African financial and digital inclusion

Dhruv Gandhi

Friday, September 8, 2017

A general view shows Alexandra Township, an informal settlement for thousands of South Africans who lack the means to get a proper home, located near the upper-class suburb of Sandton in Johannesburg, South Africa July 28, 2016. Picture taken July 28, 2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - D1BETSJZFKAA

Africa in focus

Spillover of Fed policy normalization to emerging market and developing economies: The case for optimism

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Kenyan Supreme Court judges arrive for a hearing of a petition challenging the election result filed by the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition and Human Rights groups at the Supreme Court in Nairobi, Kenya August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC17EBD239E0

Africa in focus

Kenya: Presidential elections and the rule of law

John Mukum Mbaku

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

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Africa Growth Initiative

Africa in the news: UNGA updates, cocoa export challenges, and Kenya’s full Supreme Court ruling

Figures of the week: Africa and the Global Human Capital Index

Post-AGOA: Moving to a reciprocal US-Africa trade arrangement

Flagship reforms for a more effective African Union: A conversation with Rwandan President Paul Kagame

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

Africa in the News: Tanzania seizes diamond shipment, Biafra separatists clash with Nigerian army, and South African Airways cuts flights

Figures of the week: China’s rebalancing and African growth

Africa in the news: South Africa and Nigeria exit recession, Kenya prepares for election re-run, and Togo and Cameroon protest

Events

A conversation with the Young African Leaders Initiative’s Mandela Washington Fellows

The evolving US diplomatic and foreign aid budget: What do these changes mean for Africa?

Macroeconomic developments and prospects in low-income developing countries

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

Figures of the week: New findings in African financial and digital inclusion

Spillover of Fed policy normalization to emerging market and developing economies: The case for optimism

Kenya: Presidential elections and the rule of law