Publications
The African Bond Market Development Index: 2017 Annual Country Rankings and Scores Report
03/09/2018
The African Bond Markets Development Index (ABMDI) is a ranking of African local bond markets established by the AFMI team/AfDB. This report is organized in two sections. Section 1 presents the 2017 ABMDI country rankings and scores based on 2016 data. Section 2 focuses on ABMDI weights and methodology.
Managing Budgetary Pressures - the 2017 Cabri Conference
11/06/2018
Budget managers are frequently confronted with changing circumstances during a fiscal year that disrupt even the best prepared spending plans. Some of these changed circumstances require no more than regular adjustments to plans, while others become chronic and have a significant effect on public finances. The latter are commonly referred to as extraordinary shocks, which are sudden and can pose a threat to fiscal stability and service delivery.
Localising Sovereign Debt: The Rise of Local Currency Bond Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
09/05/2018
This paper analyses the development of local currency sovereign bond markets (LCBMs), a potentially important but often overlooked source of longer-term public finance, in Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA).
African Economic Outlook 2018
07/03/2018
The African Economic Outlook bridges a critical knowledge gap on the diverse socio-economic realities of African economies through regular, rigorous, and comparative analysis. It provides short-to-medium term forecasts on the evolution of key macroeconomic indicators for all 54 regional member countries, as well as analysis on the state of socio-economic challenges and progress made in each country.
The African Fundamental Bond index: 2016 Annual Country Rankings and Scores Report
01/09/2017
This report is organized around two sections. Section 1 will present the 2016 ABMDI country rankings and scores built on 2015 data. Section 2 will present the ABMDI methodology and factor weights.
Global Public Investor 2017
23/06/2017
Domestic funding for Africa: New ways to bridge infrastructure gap, Cédric Mbeng Mezui, African Development Bank Group
OMFIF May 2017: Building a Resilient Africa
11/05/2017
In the May edition of OMFIF (Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum), Cedric Mbeng Mezui examines the links between commodity revenues and fiscal policy in Africa, warning against procyclical tendencies that expose external vulnerabilities.
