Domestic resource mobilization and external financing: When does governance matter? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (Amadou Sy, Mariama Sow, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/domestic-resource-mobilization-and-external-financing-when-does-governance-matter/

Afrique subsaharienne: Terre promise ou terre de tous les dangers? (Amadou Sy, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/afrique-subsaharienne-terre-promise-ou-terre-de-tous-les-dangers/

AGI Markets Monitor: Rising commodity prices, Mozambique’s debt crisis, and Nigeria’s parallel exchange market (Amadou Sy, Amy Copley, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/10/27/agi-markets-monitor-rising-commodity-prices-mozambiques-debt-crisis-and-nigerias-parallel-exchange-market/

Domestic risks to Africa’s growth: Navigating local content regulation and taxation (Amadou Sy, Mariama Sow, Brookings)

Sub-Saharan Africa is currently experiencing its slowest growth pace since 1994. The International Monetary Fund predicts that this year the continent will grow at a rate of 1.4 percent, down from 3.6 in 2015. Africa’s economic powerhouses—Nigeria and South Africa—are seeing their lowest growth rates in years. Nigeria is predicted to experience a 1.7 percent decrease, while South Africa’s growth rate will lie at 0.1 percent. The decline in Africa’s GDP growth is a reflection of the challenging global macroeconomic climate. Amid the slump in commodity prices, policymakers have urged African countries to diversify their economies and trigger structural transformation. In order to do so, African countries must attract foreign capital.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/10/18/domestic-risks-to-africas-growth-navigating-local-content-regulation-and-taxation/

Sub-Saharan Africa: Land of promise or of peril? (Amadou Sy, Brookings)

After more than a decade of relatively strong economic progress, sub-Saharan Africa’s aggregate GDP growth is slowing as external shocks threaten recent advances. According to the International Monetary Fund’s April 2016 Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa, between 2000 and 2015, the continent grew at an average rate of 5.5 percent.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/sub-saharan-africa-land-of-promise-or-of-peril-a-complex-narrative-of-a-continent-in-flux/

The US-Africa Business Forum: Increasing finance and capital investment (Christina Golubski, Amadou Sy, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/09/19/the-us-africa-business-forum-increasing-finance-and-capital-investment/

De-risking, renminbi, internationalization, and regional integration (Amadou Sy, Tao Wang, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/de-risking-renminbi-internationalization-and-regional-integration/

AGI Markets Monitor: Brexit’s impact on Africa, Nigeria’s new exchange rate regime, and South Africa’s credit reviews (Amadou Sy, Amy Copley, Brookings)

The Africa Growth Initiative Markets Monitor aims to provide up-to-date financial market and foreign exchange analysis for Africa watchers with a wide range of economic, business, and financial interests in the continent. Following the May 2016 update, theJuly 2016 update continues tracking the diverse performances of African financial and foreign exchange markets through June 30, 2016.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2016/07/21-africa-markets-monitor-brexit-exchange-rate-regime-sy-copley

The Brexit: What implications for Africa? (Mariama Sow, Amadou Sy, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2016/06/21-africa-brexit-trade-aid-economy-sow-sy

Moving the naira to a flexible exchange rate must be accompanied by strong policies (Amadou Sy, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2016/06/20-naira-flexible-exchange-rate-nigeria-sy

Impediment to Growth (Amadou Sy, Brookings)

Africa’s inadequate infrastructure limits the continent’s economic progress, but funding roads, ports, and power projects is difficult

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2016/06/sy.htm

Africa Growth Initiative Markets Monitor: May 2016 update (Amadou Sy, Amy Copley, Brookings)

The onset of low oil and other commodity prices in 2014 (see Figure 1), compounded with China’s slowdown, more restrictive global financing conditions, and domestic structural challenges, have elicited mixed reactions from the financial and foreign exchange markets of Africa’s major economies. To better understand these market trends—their underlying determinants as well as their implications for the continent—the Africa Growth Initiative has launched a new blog series called the Africa Growth Initiative Markets Monitor, which will provide regular updates and analysis on the latest developments in African stock and bond markets, credit ratings, and currencies.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2016/05/09-africa-growth-initiative-markets-monitor-sy-copley

Foresight Africa 2016: President Buhari’s budget sets the right course (Amadou Sy, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2016/01/06-foresight-nigeria-buhari-budget-sy

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) Reflecting on the first anniversary of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit (Amadou Sy, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2015/08/03-anniversary-us-africa-leaders-summit-sy