## Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa - Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty, April 2012

_Sub-Saharan Africa, April 25, 2012_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 25, 2012
- Series: Sub-Saharan Africa

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### Key findings and outlook
- Regional output rose by 5 percent in 2011.
- Growth is set to increase slightly in 2012.
- Drivers of continued growth include:
  - still-strong commodity prices,
  - new resource exploitation,
  - improved domestic conditions that have underpinned several years of solid trend growth in the region’s low-income countries.
- Performance varies across the region:
  - output in middle-income countries is tracking more closely the global slowdown,
  - some sub-regions were adversely affected, at least temporarily, by drought.

### Risks and vulnerabilities
- Major threats to the outlook include:
  - the risk of intensified financial stresses in the euro area spilling over into a further slowing of the global economy,
  - the possibility of an oil price surge triggered by rising geopolitical tensions.

### Publication details
- Title: Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty
- Date: April 2012

*IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa - Table of Contents (April 2012).*

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## References

- [Disclaimer](https://www.imf.org/external/terms.htm)
- [Press Release: IMF Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa: “Sustained Growth amid Global Uncertainty”](https://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2012/pr12168.htm)
- [Africa Sustains Growth Despite Global Uncertainty - Survey Story](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2012/CAR051412A.htm)
- [Africa and the Great Recession: Changing Times - Blog](http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2012/05/14/africa-and-the-great-recession-changing-times/)
- [Africa Sustains Growth Despite Global Uncertainty - Podcast](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/podcast.aspx)
- [Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional Economic Outlooks Archive](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/reo/reorepts.aspx?ddlRegions=11&ddlYear=-1)
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