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The rapid technological advancement is now disrupting the global economy and creating new business and development models, offering countries opportunities to leapfrog over traditional paths for economic growth. Over the past years, digital technologies have been spreading throughout the world...
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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 …
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Despite sustained economic growth over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa faces massive challenges and …-enhancing factors like the use of fertilizers has remained flat for decades. Africa's large infrastructure, technology, and policy gaps … environment for more innovation and technology adoption, to provide the chance for Africa to experience major positive …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Cities can increase economic growth and participate in global economic flows by acting as hubs or gateways to regional corridors, that are supported by three dimensions of connectivity: physical (infrastructure) connectivity, digital connectivity, and economic integration. Integrating these...
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This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100, Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when it turns 100 years old in 2047. This policy note...
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, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, is one of the oldest regional groupings in Africa. The main …
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isolation of West Africa's landlocked countries such as Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso's main international corridors are the …
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