Ghana’s challenges: Widening regional inequality and natural resource...
The impact of growth on poverty in Ghana has slowed substantially over the years. Ghana’s largest fall in poverty, 2% a year, was experienced during 1991–1998. Between 2012 and 2016, the poverty rate...
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The Ghana government’s new Coordinated Program strives to create opportunities for all Ghanaians; safeguard the natural environment and ensure that it is resilient; deepen governance to fight...
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To build human capital, prioritize women’s empowerment
Last month, I attended the International Family Planning Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, where policymakers from across the world gathered to strategize about ways to achieve a demographic dividend—the...
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What have we learned this year? The latest in research from the Africa Chief...
In the Africa Chief Economist’s Office, we seek to generate knowledge on key development issues around the continent. We also host the Gender Innovation Lab, which – as the name suggests –...
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Making extractives work for the people
In many countries, natural resources and extractive minerals are lucrative state assets that fail to contribute to economic prosperity. In resource-rich Africa, regulatory mismanagement, corruption...
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How do Africans’ priorities align with the SDGs and government performance?...
One of the challenges presented by the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) laid out in the UN 2030 Agenda is where to begin.Afrobarometer, which conducts public attitude surveys in more...
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South Africa growth forecasts: Better to err on the side of caution
Forecast for South African 2018 GDP growth. Following the change of political leadership early in 2018, South Africa was gripped by a wave of optimism. Analysts raised their growth forecasts for the...
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Five ways for Cameroon to align public spending with its 2035 vision
By 2035, Cameroon aspires to join the ranks of industrialized, upper-middle-income nations with low poverty rates, strong economic growth, and a functioning democracy. To realize that goal, the...
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How to remain a poverty reduction champion: Overcoming Cabo Verde’s challenges
Few countries can matchCabo Verde’s development progress over the past quarter of a century. Its Gross National Income per capita (GNI) grew six-fold. Extreme poverty fell by two-thirds from 30% in...
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More than just growth: Accelerating poverty reduction in Kenya
Kenya has been covered widely in economic news over the last decade, from the first large-scale application of mobile money to a vibrant technology hub in Africa. Indeed, Kenya experienced robust...
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