Documentos e Relatórios

Trade Watch (First Quarter 2024) (Inglês)

Goods trade remained weak in the fourth quarter of 2023, capping the slowest year of growth for global commerce outside of a recession in the past 50 years. Trade in services grew robustly in the fourth...

Trade Watch (Fourth Quarter 2023) (Inglês)

Global goods trade picked up slightly in September and October 2023 amid signs of global demand recovery but remained below levels in the previous year. Services trade continued to recover, and travel...

Trade Watch (Third Quarter 2023) (Inglês)

Global goods trade contracted further in the second quarter of 2023 as demand weakened in all regions amid tight monetary conditions, lingering inflationary pressures, and elevated geopolitical tensions...

Trade Watch (First Quarter 2023) (Inglês)

The key messages of this newsletter include: Trade expanded briskly in 2022 despite the invasion of Ukraine and growing global macroeconomic imbalances. The global impact of the war quickly dissipated...

Trade Watch (Third Quarter 2022) (Inglês)

New export orders have been shrinking since March 2022, amid cooling in China’s imports, war-induced disruptions in the trade of fuel and agricultural products, rising inflationary pressures, monetary...

Sao Tome and Principe - Systematic Country Diagnostic (Português)

São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a small island nation in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Central Africa, is in many ways a country of great untapped wealth. Its economy has grown steadily over the past...

Sao Tome and Principe - Systematic Country Diagnostic (Inglês)

São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a small island nation in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Central Africa, is in many ways a country of great untapped wealth. Its economy has grown steadily over the past...

South Africa Economic Update : Enrollments in Tertiary Education Must Rise (Inglês)

South Africa's much anticipated economic rebound in 2018 did not occur. While substantial efforts by the authorities to strengthen governance of public resources and stabilize the fiscal situation helped...

An Agro-Led Structural Transformation (Inglês)

The latest economic brief highlights that Zambia's rising macroeconomic imbalances, high debt and associated costs of debt service are crowding out private sector growth. The economy is expected to expand...

Southern African customs union - Macro poverty outlook : country by country analysis and projection for the developing world (Inglês)

The Macro Poverty Outlook for Southern African Customs Union (SACU) provides an overview of the recent macro and poverty developments for the region as a whole, and country by country cases. The Macro...

South Africa Economic Update : jobs and inequality (Inglês)

This report reviews South Africa’s recent economic and social developments. It underlines that South Africa’s current economic rebound may not be sustained if the fundamental factors undermining its growth...

Identifying the Drivers of Demand for Government in Southern African Customs Union Countries (Inglês)

The size of government defined as the share of the public expenditure in GDP measures the magnitude of resources that are under the control of the public sector and available for reallocation across sectors...

South Africa economic update : innovation for productivity and inclusiveness (Inglês)

This 10th South Africa Economic Update offers a review of the country’s recent economic and social developments and outlook in the context of global economic prospects. It focuses on the role of innovation...

South Africa economic update : private investment for jobs (Inglês)

The first chapter of the ninth edition of the economic update discusses recent economic development in South Africa. It underlines that economic growth continued to decelerate in 2016, marking the third...

Chad, Mali, Niger - Macroeconomic management for poverty reduction : Tchad, Mali, Niger - Gestion macroéconomique pour la réduction de la pauvreté (Francês)

The three countries covered in this first report, Mali, Chad and Niger, share a number of common characteristics and face a similar set of challenges, which provides the foundation for this joint-review...

Macroeconomic Management for Poverty Reduction : Chad, Mali, Niger (Inglês)

Macroeconomic management in Chad, Mali and Niger needs to account for a number of specific parameters. Very rapid population growth exerts immense pressure on the demand for education and health services...

Chad, Mali, Niger - Macroeconomic management for poverty reduction (Inglês)

The three countries covered in this first report, Mali, Chad and Niger, share a number of common characteristics and face a similar set of challenges, which provides the foundation for this joint-review...

Mali - Mali - First Recovery and Governance Reform Support Credit (RGRSC-1) : P145275 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (Inglês)

Mali - Geography of poverty in Mali (Inglês)

This study discusses the impact of economic geography and (low) population density on development outcomes in Mali and explores how policies to reduce poverty can be made more effective by taking these...

Mali - Mali RRSC : P125866 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (Inglês)