Some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Gambia (down 15 points) and Eswatini (down 11 points), saw double-digit declines in stress.

Reduced donor financing may exacerbate Sub-Saharan Africa's economic problems, which might worsen humanitarian conditions, especially in the region's poorest nations, according to a World Bank ...

Over the past ten years, growth in sub-Saharan Africa’s resource-intensive countries (RICs)—and especially in fuel exporting economies such as Angola, Chad, and Nigeria—has slowed down sharply, ...

Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe have some of the most untapped potential in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), according to Euromoney’s Africa’s rising stars.. An abundance of ...

Sub-Saharan Africa's public debt-to-GDP ratio is forecast to fall from 61% in 2023 to 57% this year, but more than half of countries are still in or at high risk of debt distress, the report said.

This paper studies the potential effects of geoeconomic fragmentation (GEF) in the sub-Saharan Africa region (SSA) through quantifying potential long-term economic costs. The paper considers two ...

3:00 – 3:05 pm (Lusaka) Opening Remarks Victoria Kwakwa, Regional Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa, The World Bank 3:05 – 3:20 pm The Growth-environment nexus in Sub-Saharan African ...