Regional Economic Outlook, October 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa: A Difficult Road to Recovery
Regional Economic Outlook, October 22, 2020
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Bibliographic details
- Published: October 22, 2020
- Series: Regional Economic Outlook
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513557601.086
Overview
- Sub-Saharan Africa is struggling to navigate an unprecedented health and economic crisis—one that, in just a few months, has jeopardized decades of hard-won development gains and upended the lives and livelihoods of millions.
- Publication date: October 22, 2020.
Key themes and subjects
- Subject tags:
- Climate change
- COVID-19
- Crisis recovery and resolution planning
- Debt service
- Economic and Financial Topics
- Economic recession
- External debt
- Health
- Inflation
- Oil prices
- Prices
- Public debt
- Regional Economic Outlook
- Keywords:
- Africa
- commodity-exporting country
- COVID-19
- crisis
- Debt service
- exchange market pressure index
- financial crisis
- financial support
- financing difficulties
- financing gap
- food price inflation
- Global
- governance reform
- IMF role
- IMF staff calculation
- Inflation
- international community
- market terms
- Oil prices
- pandemic
- policy challenge
- policy mix
- recession
- recovery
- REO
- reopening
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- transfer program
- West Africa
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- Citation preview example provided in Chicago format.
International Monetary Fund. African Dept. Regional Economic Outlook, October 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa: A Difficult Road to Recovery, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed 9/23/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513557601.086
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- Executive Summary