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    Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa set to decline from 4.1% in 2021 to 3.3% in 2022

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    Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to decelerate according to the World Bank’s latest Africa’s Pulse report.

    Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is set to decelerate from 4.1% in 2021 to 3.3% in 2022. This is according to the World Bank’s latest Africa’s Pulse, a biannual analysis of the near-term regional macroeconomic outlook. It represents a downward revision of 0.3 percentage points since Pulse’s April forecast.

    Growth: A global slowdown

    This is mainly due to a slowdown in global growth, including flagging demand from China for commodities produced in Africa. The war in Ukraine is exacerbating already high inflation and weighing on economic activity by depressing both business investments and household consumption.

    As of July 2022, 29 of 33 countries in SSA with available information had inflation rates over 5%, while 17 countries had double-digit inflation.

    “These trends compromise poverty reduction efforts that were already set back by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Andrew Dabalen, World Bank Chief Economist for Africa. “What is most worrisome is the impact of high food prices on people struggling to feed their families, threatening long-term human development. This calls for urgent action from policymakers to restore macro-economic stability and support the poorest households while reorienting their food and agriculture spending to achieve future resilience.”

    Elevated food prices

    Elevated food prices are causing hardships with severe consequences in one of the world’s most food-insecure regions. Hunger has sharply increased in SSA in recent years, driven by economic shocks, violence and conflict and extreme weather.

    More than one in five people in Africa suffer from hunger and an estimated 140 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022, up from 120 million people in 2021, according to the Global Report on Food Crises 2022 Mid-Year Update.

    The interconnected crises come at a time when the fiscal space required to mount effective government responses is all but gone. In many countries, public savings have been depleted by earlier programs to counter the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, though resource-rich countries, in some cases, have benefited from high commodity prices and managed to improve their balance sheet.

    African debt

    Debt is projected to stay elevated at 58.6% of GDP in 2022 in SSA. African governments spent 16.5% of their revenues servicing external debt in 2021, up from less than 5% in 2010. Eight out of 38 IDA-eligible countries in the region are in debt distress and 14 are at high risk of joining them. At the same time, high commercial borrowing costs make it difficult for countries to borrow on national and international markets, while tightening global financial conditions are weakening currencies and increasing African countries’ external borrowing costs.

    The report can be downloaded here.

    In August, the Islamic Development Bank announced the creation of USD 10.54 billion package to help combat regional food insecurity.

    Arfrica Growth Sub-Saharan The World Bank
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