While South Africa has made significant improvements in basic and tertiary education
enrollment, the country still suffers from significant challenges in the quality of educational …

This paper investigates the impact of commodity price shocks on financial sector fragility.
Using a large sample of 71 commodity exporters among emerging and developing economies, …

This paper discusses how sub-Saharan Africa’s financial sector developed in the past few
decades, compared with other regions. Sub-Saharan African countries have made substantial …

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have seen accelerated growth for an extended
period of time since the mid-1990s, making a clear break with their long stagnant growth …

This paper analyzes the links between financial and trade openness and financial development
in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It is based on a panel dataset using methods …

This paper explores the relationship between external debt and poverty. A number of observers
have argued that high external indebtedness is a major cause of poverty. Using the first-…

Amid rapid population growth, migration in sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing briskly
over the last 20 years. Up to the 1990s, the stock of migrants—citizens of one country living in …

The paper explores the quality of the recent high-growth episode in sub-Saharan Africa by
examining the following two questions:(i) what has been the nature and pattern of SSA growth …

After close to two decades of strong economic activity, overall growth in sub-Saharan Africa
decelerated markedly in 2015–16 as the largest economies experienced negative or flat …

While there is an extensive literature examining the economic impact of conflict and political
instability, surprisingly there have been few studies on their impact on the probability of …