This paper assesses the stance of monetary policy in eleven Sub-Saharan African (SSA) emerging and frontier market economies. We estimate neutral real interest rates using a range of methodologies, ...

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Sub-Saharan Africa hosts 52 % of the world’s mobile-money accounts, yet only 7 % of adults there borrowed via these services in 2024. • GSMA and World Bank concur that strict regulation, low credit ...

While demand for cooling increases with rising global temperatures, many in Sub-Saharan Africa are without sustainable or ...

IoT connectivity solutions enabler floLIVE has announced the launch of what it calls a groundbreaking connectivity offering ...

TANZANIA is positioning itself to become a hub for the manufacture of mining products and services for Sub-Saharan Africa by ...

Dean Adansi, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana International Bank (GHIB), has unveiled a financing blueprint aimed at breaking ...

Disrupted programming, journalists sacked from their jobs: the US government’s suspension of Voice of America (VOA), whose ...

The government of Africa's biggest economy has tried for months to negotiate a U.S. trade deal but failed to reach agreement ...

Morocco's economic capital welcomes many immigrants from West Africa. Confronted with growing barriers to reaching Europe, ...

A DNA analysis of two people who lived in Britain in the seventh century reveals they had recent African ancestry.

The White House and State Department work to address Islamic State-allied attacks on Christians in sub-Saharan Africa ...