African Economic Outlook 2010
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Since 2002, the annual African Economic Outlook has been charting the progress of the continent’s economies. Africa was propelled by seven years of strong growth from 2002 to 2008, only to be stopped in its tracks by the world’s deepest and most widespread recession in half a century. This edition finds the continent struggling to get back on its feet and identify new, more crisis-resilient practices for moving forward. In this context, decision makers in African and OECD countries, both in the public and private sectors, will find this year's analysis of particular interest for their activities.
Jointly published by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the OECD Development Centre and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Economic Outlook project is generously supported by the European Development Fund. It combines the expertise accumulated by the OECD – which produces the OECD Economic Outlook twice yearly – with the knowledge of the AfDB, UNECA and a network of African research institutions on African economies.
This year’s Outlook reviews recent economic, social and political developments and the short-term likely evolution of 50 African countries. The African Economic Outlook is drawn from a country-by-country analysis based on a unique common framework. This includes a forecasting exercise for 2010 to 2012 using a simple macroeconomic model, together with an analysis of the social and political context. Its overview chapter provides a comparative synthesis of African country prospects which places the evolution of African economies in the world economic context. A statistical appendix completes the volume.
African Economic Outlook 2010 focuses on public resource mobilisation and aid in Africa, presenting a comprehensive review of best practices in tax administration, policies and multilateral agreements, including recommendations for meeting future challenges. The role that aid should play to help African countries mobilise their public resources to meet their development goals is also discussed. The original dataset that resulted from the 50-country analysis will be made available for free on www.africaneconomicoutlook.org.
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Equatorial Guinea
OECD Development Centre
Equatorial Guinea has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world since large-scale commercial exploitation of oil began in the 1990s. It remains one of Africa’s fastest growing economies and also one of the main destinations of foreign investment. However, the country experienced an economic slowdown in 2009, posting a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 1.9%, compared with 11.3% in 2008. ?e decline was due to a fall in oil prices and oil production in the wake of the global recession. ?is also caused the share of the hydrocarbons sector to fall from 77% of GDP in 2008 to around 61% in 2009, although it remains the main sector of the economy. After a recession in 2010, the economy is expected to recover gradually and return to positive growth of 2.7% in 2011. ?e fall in oil revenues has had a major adverse effect on the government budget with the budget surplus falling by 16 percentage points to 6.9% of GDP in 2009. It is projected to rise to 14.4% of GDP in 2010 and further to 17.7% in 2011. In contrast, the current account surplus rose to 8.3% of GDP in 2009, compared with 3.7% in 2008. It is projected to rise to 17.3% in 2010 and further to 19.7% in 2011. Inflation was 5.5% in 2009 and is forecast to fall to 2.4% in 2010. Equatorial Guinea faces no debt problems thanks to its large budget surpluses and external reserves. External debt at the end 2009 was only 1% of GDP and is forecast to fall to 0.7% in 2011.
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