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IMF Lifts Sub-Saharan Africa’s Growth Forecast to 4.5%, With Ghana at 5.7%, Kenya at 4.5% and South Africa Stuck at 1%

The Fund’s October World Economic Outlook, released in Bangkok, raises the region’s 2026 outlook from 4.3% but warns the average hides wide gaps between countries — and that higher prices for essentials could deepen poverty.

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Kristalina Georgieva
Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, in a 2019 World Bank Group photograph. (File photo)World Bank Group / Grant Ellis / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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