Sub-Saharan Africa had a manufacturing renaissance in 2010s – it's a promising sign for the years ahead
- Written by Gaaitzen de Vries, Associate professor University of Groningen, UNU WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, United Nations University
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy, with world output contracting at 3.5% in 2020, and no recovery likely before the fourth quarter of 2021. Similar to other developing regions, sub-Saharan Africa recorded a 2.6% decline, following strong growth of 3.2% in 2019.
Unfortunately, this comes at a time when the region has...