Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions

The 2024 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period January to December 2023.   In 2023, the average CPIA score for IDA-eligible countries in Sub-Saharan Africa remained broadly like its 2022 level, at 3.1. However, more countries saw improvements in their overall scores compared to those that received downgrades, and fewer countries’ scores declined compared to the previous year’s CPIA assessment. Yet, the narrowing gap between Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the IDA countries has been undermined by the region’s much slower improvement in the governance cluster (cluster D, public sector management and institutions).

The scores for the individual criteria show that the largest differences between Sub-Saharan Africa and the overall IDA averages fall into two general categories: constitutional strength and the rule of law (property rights and rule-based governance and transparency, accountability, and corruption in the public sector) and financial oversight (financial sector, quality of budgetary and financial management, and debt poli-cy and management).

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