Africa’s Pulse: COVID-19 and the Future of Work in Africa

About this episode

The episode discusses the economic impact of COVID-19 on Sub-Saharan Africa and the prospects for recovery.

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to have contracted by 2.0% in 2020, closer to the lower bound of the forecast in April 2020, and prospects for recovery are strengthening amid actions to contain new waves of the pandemic and speed up vaccine rollouts, according to the World Bank’s biannual economic analysis for the region.

Topics covered

• COVID-19
• Future of Work
• Economic Growth
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Keywords

• vaccine rollouts
• economic analysis
• World Bank

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

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