Relaunching Africa Can and Sharing Africa’s Growth
Dear Africa Can readers, we’ve heard from many of you since our former Africa Chief Economist Shanta Devarajan left the region for a new Bank position that you want Africa Can to continue highlighting...
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Measuring Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Knowledge Gaps and...
Local children sit on a boulder overlooking the Kenyan slum of Kibera@Gates Foundation Despite hundreds of millions spent on more and better household surveys across Africa in recent decades, we...
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Inequality and Africa’s IDA Middle Income Trap
Inequality is of concern for at least three reasons. First, lower inequality per se is an objective for a decent society. Second, lower inequality improves the efficiency of economic growth in...
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Six critical areas for stability in West Africa
This blog was first published on September 15, 2015 by Alexandre Marc, Chief Specialist for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence at the World Bank and author of the recently published book, “The Challenge...
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What Studies in Spatial Development Show in Ethiopia-Part I
Malnutrition in Ethiopia: distribution of stunted children The Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for the coming five years in Ethiopia, approved by the World Bank board in June, features a “spatial...
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What Studies in Spatial Development Show in Ethiopia-Part II
Source: World Bank visualization based on data from various UN agenciesIn Part I of our blog—based on a background note we wrote for the World Bank’s 2017–2022 Country Partnership Framework for...
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What Studies in Spatial Development Show in Ethiopia-Part III
Source: World Bank visualization based on data from NOAA’s VIIRS Satellite. In Part III of our three-part blog series on our study on spatial distribution and its implications for inclusiveness...
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Poor places. Rich places. Can geography explain it all?
“Tell me where you live, and I can predict how well you’ll do in life.” Does welfare vary largely across space? Although I don’t have a crystal ball, I do know for a fact that location is an excellent...
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The South African economy is growing faster—but how fast?
Construction workers. South Africa. Photo: Trevor Samson/World Bank The South African economy has been off to a good start in 2018. Statistics SA, the country’s national statistical service, released...
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