In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … small, portion of the elevated growth in sub Saharan Africa in the three years before the Financial Crisis and also in the …) was around 6%, or 2 percentage points above mean growth rates for the preceding 10 years. This period also coincided with …

In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to …

. Although the study does not presume that finance is the most binding constraint to growth and socio-economic development in … Burundi, it takes the view that unlocking the financing constraint could alleviate other impediments to growth and poverty …) political economy analysis highlighting the role of political governance and political instability, as well as ownership of …

Africa's recent growth performance has raised expectations of a bright economic future for the continent after decades … of decline. Yet there is a genuine question about whether Africa's growth can be sustained, and if so, at what level. The … payoffs to macroeconomic stability and improved governance are mainly to foster resilience and lay the groundwork for growth …

ethnic fragmentation as a main driver of political and social friction in Africa, the paper further details the construction …