This episode focuses on the Africa Pulse Report 2025, the World Bank’s flagship analysis of economic trends and policy challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the region works to strengthen its recovery while contending with structural and macroeconomic difficulties, Andrew Dabalen, Chief Economist for the Africa Region at the World Bank, shares key insights and takeaways from this year’s edition.
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May 29, 2026This Paper was originally published on tandfonline.com This paper examines how reductions in transportation costs reshape regional economic and environmental outcomes in Morocco. We simulate a reduction in delivered (purchasers’) costs via a transport-margin efficiency improvement – implemented as a margin-saving technical change in the transport sector – within a province-level Spatial Computable General Equilibrium (SCGE) framework. Simulating a 1% decline in transport costs, ... -
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