Préface /Dr Ibrahima Dia --Résumé exécutif --Introduction /par Cheikh Oumar Bâ, Muhammad Bâ, Cheikh Guèye et Abdourahmane Ndiaye --L'èmergence du Sénégal à l'épreuve de la Covid-19 : quels scénarios pour 2023? /par Moubarack Lô et Amaye Sy --Problématiques, enjeux et défis...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in global economic activity and trade. The crisis has also highlighted the role played by global value chains (GVC), with countries facing shortages of components vital to everything from health systems to everyday household goods....

This paper studies the impact of declining oil prices on banks in sub-Saharan African oil-exporting countries. Results indicate that banks respond differently to an oil shock depending on their ownership: (i) domestic banks are the most adversely impacted and experience a deterioration in asset...

This Selected Issues paper presents an external stability assessment on Niger. Niger’s current account balance deteriorated in 2013, mostly on account of higher food and capital goods imports. The deficit is expected to widen further in 2014–15, mainly driven by large investment in the...

"Recent years have seen an increasing use of macroprudential policies (MaPPs) in Europe. Since the global financial crisis, many European countries have implemented macroprudential frameworks and tools, producing an expanding body of empirical research on their effectiveness. In part, the goal...

Economic stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has led several economists to question the region's ability to attain sustained economic growth, some of them arguing for the need to shift away from natural resource - based exports. Yet, we find that low growth has not been common to all SSA...