GLOBAL ECONOMY

Digital Report - immediate delivery to your email.

Date of Publishing: 2023.
No. of Pages: 250.

As Africa’s population grows, creating more and better jobs for youth will be essential for poverty reduction and shared prosperity. This report, Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs, makes the case for putting digital technologies at the center of a good-jobs strategy for the continent. The report’s overview of current challenges establishes that, although Africa’s mobile internet availability has increased in recent years, its internet infrastructure and the quality of available services still lag behind other regions. Divides in the availability of quality digital services remain an issue in all countries, especially in remote and poorer subregions. Additionally, Africa lags behind other regions in the use of internet services. 

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Contents:

CHAPTER 1

Digital Technologies: Enablers of Technological Transformation for Jobs.

1.1. What are digital technologies?

1.2. Africa’s jobs and technology challenges.

1.3. Impacts of digital technology use on jobs and poverty.

1.4. Africa’s large internet uptake gap.

1.5. Data and knowledge gaps for future work.

CHAPTER 2

2.1. Enterprises: Creating Better Jobs for More People through Innovation.

2.2. Digital technology use by African enterprises.

2.3. COVID-19 and digital divides.

2.4. Drivers of enterprise use.

2.5. Technology policies for more and better firms.

CHAPTER 3

Households: Supporting Productive Use of DTs for Inclusive Economic Impact. 

3.1. Household internet use is low, uneven, but growing.

3.2. The COVID-19 paradox: Increased internet usage but widened digital divides.

3.3. Understanding constraints to household internet use.

3.4. A policy framework to transform use into inclusive impact.

CHAPTER 4

Digital and Data Infrastructure: Stimulating Greater Availability and Use through Policy and Regulatory Reforms.

4.1. Market challenges of internet connectivity: Affordability, use, and quality.

4.2. Affordability to increase use.

4.3. Availability to reduce digital divides.

4.4. Data infrastructure and regulation for affordability and willingness to use.

4.5. Looking ahead: Regional integration and climate transition.

4.6. Summary of key findings for more inclusive use. 

 

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Digital Report - immediate delivery to your email.

Date of Publishing: 2023.
No. of Pages: 170.

As we begin 2023, Africa’s development is threatened by multiple crises. This time is distinctly different from past episodes, first in the increased frequency of crises, as well as the persistence and deepening of climate and conflict crises. While in 2008/2009 Africa was able to use debt to weather the financial crisis, today, rapidly rising global interest rates and the absence of a well-functioning framework for comprehensive debt reduction and relief, threaten to cut access to international financial markets for many countries. Moreover, deglobalization trends could limit Africa’s ability to use international trade to drive growth.

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Contents:

1. ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND GROWTH: TACKLING MULTIPLE HEADWINDS.

1.1. Priority actions to address Africa’s economic recovery.

1.2. African economies and overlapping crises: How to respond to the rising global headwinds?

1.3. Staying the course: Strengthening fundamentals despite adversity.

1.4. Nigeria in 2023: Bridging the productivity gap and building economic resilience.

1.5. Africa’s sovereign finance toolbox: Building resilience for a sustainable future.

1.6. The banking sector as a partner in Africa’s recovery: A perspective from Ecobank Group.

1.7. Self-organizing Nigeria: The antifragile state.

1.8. In search of new ideas for Africa’s recovery: Sports and creative industries as game changers.

2. FOOD SECURITY: STRENGTHENING AFRICA’S FOOD SYSTEMS

2.1. Food security in Africa: Current efforts and challenges.

2.2. Securing Africa’s food sovereignty.

2.3. Getting rice right in Liberia.

2.4. Financing food systems resilience in Africa: A starting point for transformation.

2.5. Recurrent food crises underscore the need for food system transformation.

3. EDUCATION AND SKILLS: EQUIPPING A LABOR FORCE FOR THE FUTURE.

3.1. Strengthening education systems in Africa.

3.2. Educate to adapt, adapt to educate.

3.3. International education financing will make or break the SDGs.

3.4. Stem education in Africa: Risk and opportunity.

3.5. To prosper, Africa’s children and youth must learn.

3.6. Foundational skills for a more inclusive Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in Africa.

3.7. Learning on the move: Resetting the agenda for education and learning in conflict-affected settings.

4. HEALTH: ASSURING HEALTH SECURITY FOR ALL.

4.1. Finishing the job on HIV/ AIDS.

4.2. Leveraging lessons from COVID-19 to build stronger health systems.

4.3. Confronting global inequalities to end HIV/AIDS.

4.4. Empowering frontline workers to develop and deliver health care solutions.

4.5. Ethiopia’s lessons from COVID-19.

4.6. Building Africa’s capacity for pandemic and epidemic intelligence.

4.7. Using information and communication technology to improve mental health in Africa.

5. GENDER: CLOSING THE EQUITY GAP. 

5.1. Why addressing gender inequality is central to tackling today’s polycrises.

5.2. Strengthening fiscal policy for gender equality systems.

5.3. Closing the gender gap through digital and social inclusion: The Togolese case.

5.4. COVID-19 shed light on the challenges facing Africa’s women: The recovery must bring them out of the shadows.

5.5. Equal power, faster progress: A recipe for Africa’s transformation.

5.6. Women and access to justice in Africa: Women cannot wait another 100 years.

6. CLIMATE CHANGE: ADAPTING TO A NEW NORMAL.

6.1. Turning political ambitions into concrete climate financing actions for Africa.

6.2. The charge due to custodians of the world’s lungs.

6.3. The case for climate financing.

6.4. Climate adaptation finance in Africa.

6.5. Gold mining, climate change, and Africa’s transition.

6.6. Global decarbonization: Industrial opportunities for Africa.

6.7. Managing the compounding debt and climate crises.

6.8. Africa’s Blue Economy can continue to deliver huge benefits to the continent.

7. AFRICA’S CITIES: REALIZING THE NEW URBAN AGENDA. 

7.1. Lagos: The challenges of managing a megacity.

7.2. Kisumu: A secondary city with grand ambition.

7.3. Urban economic development in Africa: A case study of Nairobi city.

7.4. Cape Town: Lessons from managing water scarcity.

7.5. Enhancing climate adaptation: The role of climate resilient housing in Africa’s cities.

7.6. How can cities create better jobs in sub-Saharan Africa.

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