Podcasts by Afronomics

Demystifying African Debt Featuring Carmen Reinhart, World Bank Group Chief Economist from 2021-07-23T12:20

Today we are tackling an issue that is on the minds of every African policy maker, and one that has captured international discussions for several years: African Debt. D...

Africa’s Pulse: COVID-19 and the Future of Work in Africa from 2021-05-11T08:00

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to have contracted by 2.0% in 2020, closer to the lower bound of the forecast in April 2020, and prospects for recovery are strengthening amid ...

Learning from five decades of development in Africa Featuring KY Amoako, Founder and President of the African Center for Economic Transformation from 2020-12-23T14:44

As we close out 2020 and look into 2021, one thing is abundantly clear: the world has changed. There is much to be concerned about against the backdrop of COVID-19, but so much to be proud of an...

Responses to COVID-19 in Africa: Lessons from Ethiopia featuring Dr. Arkebe Oqubay, Senior Minister and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 2020-07-13T12:00

The COVID19 pandemic is taking hold in Africa, and countries are dealing with the health and economic impacts that are becoming clearer as the weeks go by. For many export-led economies, th...

The Role of Knowledge in Crisis featuring Mari Pangestu, Managing Director, World Bank from 2020-06-16T18:43

Timely and relevant knowledge and information sharing can help individuals change behavior, can inform countries’ responses, and can help prevent missteps from being rep...

Coordinating Public Health Responses to COVID-19 feat. Dr. John Nkengasong, Director, Africa CDC from 2020-05-21T00:05

The COVID-19 pandemic is having severe public health, economic and social impacts around the world, and Dr. John Nkengasong, Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) h...

Africa’s Pulse: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in Africa from 2020-04-13T21:44

The COVID-19 pandemic is only just beginning to take hold in Sub-Saharan Africa, but it is already having a huge impact. The World Bank’s recent Africa’s Pulse...

Ten Years of Africa’s Progress from 2020-02-06T09:00

Ten years ago, the world was fighting its way out of a global financial crisis, but prospects were strong for Sub-Saharan Africa to quickly recover. The World Bank started publishing Africa’s Pu...

What will it take to accelerate poverty reduction in Africa? from 2020-02-05T19:14

Despite the incredible progress that so many African countries have made, poverty remains a defining part of the narrative around Africa. While the share of people living in extreme poverty has ...

The Future of Work in Africa: The Role of Social Protection from 2019-09-24T18:59

The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old” manufacturing sectors that are susceptible to automat...

Analyzing Inequality in Africa from 2019-05-14T18:58

Discussions on Sub-Saharan Africa often center on extreme poverty: the subcontinent is home to half of the world’s extreme poor, and the number of people living in extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Af...

Analyzing Inequality in Africa from 2019-05-14T18:58

Discussions on Sub-Saharan Africa often center on extreme poverty: the subcontinent is home to half of the world’s extreme poor, and the number of people living in extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan...

M-Pesa and the rise of digital financial services in Africa from 2019-02-01T18:53

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region where the share of adults with a mobile money account now exceeds 10 percent. That mobile revolution began in Kenya. In this episode of Afronomics, World Ba...

Rwanda tops Africa in CPIA ratings from 2018-10-01T18:46

In 2017, nearly third of the 38 African countries that receive the IDA concessional window, strengthened their policy and institutional quality compared to 2016.

This is one of the finding...

Protecting West Africa’s Coastal Economies from 2018-08-13T18:43

Today, there are about 120 million people living along the coast of West Africa who are threatened by coastal erosion and flooding on a daily basis. Large areas of coast line have disappeared, a...

Africa’s Pulse: Access to Energy in Africa from 2018-04-18T18:28

Part Two of our discussion on Africa’s Pulse focusses on how African countries can improve access to electricity to accelerate progress in development outcomes, jobs and prosperity. We’re speaking ...

Africas Pulse: The State of African Economies from 2018-04-17T17:19

Part One of our discussion on Africa’s Pulse focusses on recent economic developments, how the external environment is impacting the continent’s growth and what the economic forecast looks like ove...