The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 48 developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to nearly half of the world’s fragile and conflict-affected states, where weak institutions and social cohesion, governance failures, and economic instability trap millions ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region ... and public services represents one of Africa’s best prospects for accelerating poverty reduction and maps out a framework that can help ...

"Excluding these countries, the rest of the subcontinent is expected to grow at 4.6 percent in 2025 and speed up to 5.7 percent in 2026-27," the World Bank said.The World Bank on Thursday said ...

Sub-Saharan Africa must increase economic growth to reduce poverty and improve living standards. This article discusses some obstacles to growth in the region, as well as some policy actions that ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, two out of every three people are without access to electricity, and it is this energy poverty that is handicapping the region’s economic development Eskom’s Duvha Power Station ...

Drs Lawrence Ado-Kofie and David Lawson at our Global Development Institute investigated the causes of childhood mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to crippling rates of poverty in many of ...