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PodcastApril 13, 2015

End of the Commodity Super-Cycle Weighs on Growth

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Sub-Saharan Africa¡¯s growth will slow in 2015 to 4.0 percent from 4.5 percent in 2014, according to ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ projections released today.This downturn largely reflects the fall in the prices of oil and other commodities, notes Africa¡¯s Pulse, a twice-yearly ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group analysis of the issues shaping Africa¡¯s economic prospects released today at the start of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group¡¯s 2015 Spring Meetings, which will draw the world¡¯s finance and development ministers to Washington, DC, for talks on the state of the global economy and international development.