This year's World Economic Forum takes place against a bleak economic backdrop, but the mood is relatively upbeat, says WEF's head of regional agenda for Africa.
Countries with a market-oriented industrial policy top the ranking of Africa's most industrialised economies, write Jonathan Said and Kartik Akileswaran.
The AfCFTA faces challenges, but energy and optimism can carry it through, argues the head of the African economic integration team at the Centre for Europe-Africa Relations.
Can Africa learn the lessons of history and work with a much wider range of multilateral partners to help it tackle the challenges of 2023 differently and better?
President Xi Jinping's strict zero-Covid policies are isolating China from global supply chains, according to a freight executive. Can African manufacturers fill the gap?
Despite disruptions to the world economy, the Biden administration has delivered on its bid to ramp up trade and investment with Africa, says Laird Treiber of the CSIS.