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Impact of COVID-19: nowcasting and big data to track economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa [1]

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the critical need for detailed, timely information on its evolving economic impacts, particularly for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where data availability and lack of generalizable nowcasting methodologies limit efforts for coordinated policy responses. This paper presents a suite of high frequency and granular country-level indicator tools that can be used to nowcast GDP and track changes in economic activity for countries in SSA.
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Publication Date: 
01/04/2021
Brandon Buell [3], Carissa Chen [4], Reda Cherif [5], Hyeon-Jae Seo [6], Jiawen Tang [7], Nils Wendt [8]
International Monetary Fund [9]
Tags:
Coronavirus [10], Economy [11], GDP [12], Africa [13], Finance [14]
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/impact-covid-19-nowcasting-and-big-data-track-economic-activity-sub-saharan-africa
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/economic activity in sub saharan africa.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/brandon-buell
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/carissa-chen
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/reda-cherif
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/hyeon-jae-seo
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jiawen-tang
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/nils-wendt
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/international-monetary-fund
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/coronavirus
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/economy
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gdp
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/finance