{ "title": "Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa - Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty, April 2012", "publication": "Sub-Saharan Africa, April 25, 2012", "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/publications/reo/ssa/issues/2017/02/01/sustaining-growth-amid-global-uncertainty", "canonical": "https://www.imf.org/en/publications/reo/ssa/issues/2017/02/01/sustaining-growth-amid-global-uncertainty", "overlayPath": "/en/publications/reo/ssa/issues/2017/02/01/sustaining-growth-amid-global-uncertainty/index.md", "summary": "IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa - April 2012 -- Table of Contents", "publishDate": "2012-04-25", "series": "Sub-Saharan Africa", "sections": [ { "heading": "Key findings and outlook", "content": "- Regional output rose by 5 percent in 2011.\n- Growth is set to increase slightly in 2012.\n- Drivers of continued growth include:\n - still-strong commodity prices,\n - new resource exploitation,\n - improved domestic conditions that have underpinned several years of solid trend growth in the region’s low-income countries.\n- Performance varies across the region:\n - 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