How China’s rebalancing affects Africa’s development finance … and more

Helmut Reisen

Shifting Wealth Consulting and former Head of Research at the OECD Development Centre

2015 has been a challenging year for Africa. Average growth of African economies weakened in 2015 to 3.6%, down from an average annual 5% enjoyed since 2000.

Economic data

GDP growth: +0.3% Q3 2019

Consumer price inflation: 1.8 % Nov 2019 annual

Trade (G20): -0.7% exp, -0.9% imp, Q3 2019

Unemployment: 5.1% November 2019

Last update: 15 January 2020

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