Guinea, a country of roughly 12.4 million people with a bank account penetration rate of 15 percent as of 2017, has made modest gains in reducing financial exclusion levels since 2011, despite being hit by…
The latest round of Global Findex data show that two particular groups – women and youth – consistently than adult and youth males. Zambia...
Sierra Leone, a country of roughly 7.5 million people with a bank account penetration rate of 20 percent as of 2017, has made modest...
This is a synthesis report on Promoting Women and Youth Financial Inclusion for Entrepreneurship and Job Creation: Comparative Study of Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries....
One-fifth of the global population under the age of 25 now resides in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the world’s youngest region, which is growing at...
This report provides an update of country and sector-level trends in foreign direct investments (FDI) flows and announcements in cross-border investments in Compact with...
Many African countries are considering mainstreaming artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) as a catalyst for inclusive growth. ASM has been touted as having the...
This study provides a comparative analysis of natural resource sector development in eight African countries. The study looks at national policies and strategies together...
This study assesses how African countries mobilize, allocate and manage external resource inflows, as well as how they manage relationships with funders—traditional and non-traditional,...
The Role of Agricultural Supply Chains and Household Constraints in ECOWAS countries At the 19th annual conference of the African Region chapter of the...
The last decade has been an extraordinarily good one for developing nations and their mostly poor citizens, so good in fact that it has...
Assessing the impact and effectiveness of the Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative in Ghana, this report uses nine indicators to measure whether AfT has...
Growth without structural transformation has proved to be unsustainable. Africa needs to diversify their economies if they want to become authentic economic lions. These...
Economic Transformation and Poverty Reduction: How it happened in China, helping it happen in Africa
The experiences and lessons from China’s economic transformation and poverty reduction have been attracting much interest from both African countries and the international development...
The Trade Experts Group interim report was launched at Davos on Jan 28th 2011, 1800 GMT. Dr K. Y Amoako is a member of...
The second GTA report, prepared by an independent group of researchers and analysts located around the globe, including ACET staff, is based on over...