Africa: Oil prices, virus outbreak batter economies

Given the pace at which the coronavirus is disrupting activity both in Africa and globally, most of the backward-looking figures released this month probably tell us very little about the current state of the region’s economies. This publication will, instead, focus on timely measures of activity and figures giving a sense of the immediate economic effect of the virus in Africa.

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