-Saharan Africa (SSA) with an estimated 435 inhabitants per k …

Following a sharp slowdown over the past two years, a recovery is underway in Sub-Saharan Africa. Gross domestic …, Nigeria exited a five-quarter recession and South Africa emerged from two successive quarters of negative growth. Economic …

Despite sustained economic growth over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa faces massive challenges and …-fifths of the African population was poor in 2012. Nearly two-thirds of Africans do not have electricity. Less than one quarter … countries is almost half. The use of formal financial services is concentrated among the richest 20 percent of the population …

40 percent of those lacking IDs in the world live in Africa. For the first time, the World Bank is planning to provide … financial support and technical assistance to ID systems in Africa; this is an area in which it has had marginal involvement … until now. The knowledge base related to ID systems in Africa has expanded dramatically. Applying a standardized assessment …

After slowing to 3 percent in 2015, economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to fall to 1.6 percent in 2016 … region. The overall slowdown in Sub-Saharan Africa's growth reflects economic deterioration in the region's largest economies … that Sub- Saharan Africa is growing at diverging speeds. While many countries are registering a sharp slippage in economic …

The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) for Africa is an annual diagnostic tool for Sub-Saharan African … helps the world's poorest countries. The CPIA Africa 2023 report provides an assessment of the quality of policies and … institutions in all 39 IDA-eligible countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for calendar year 2022. The average overall CPIA score for Sub …