The National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS2017-2022) says 76% of Uganda’s urban adults used formal or semi-formal financial institutions for financing. In rural areas, 49% of adults used formal ...

Skip to content viewer section. This article compares the effectiveness of informal and formal institutions for sustainable common pool resources (CPRs) management in Sub-Saharan Africa and ...

Although the conventional wisdom remains largely true, some movement is occurring on Africa’s agricultural input front. Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers ... use formal or ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 47 developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual ...

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 ...

The stark reality of informal settlements in South Africa is daily evidence of the ... This programme has been divided into four sub-programmes which deal with school “communal reinvent the ...

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 99/51 "Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in the original ...

Across sub-Saharan Africa, cities are embracing nature-based solutions to climate change. A World Bank report reveals the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Sub-Saharan African countries previously shut out of the bond market are resuming debt offerings denominated in foreign currencies, raising more than $10 billion in 2024.

In sub-Saharan Africa informal public transport moves about 72% of the region’s passengers. Freight moves goods in the absence of adequate rail. Electrifying these sectors needs careful planning.

TASS/. South Africa was the most popular destination in Sub-Saharan Africa among Russian tourists at the end of 2023, according to the Russian Union of Travel Industry. "Last year, South Africa ...