Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
This group is for funders, their grantee partners, CSO networks and their members and individual organizations working throughout Sub Saharan Africa. Use this group to discuss issues of shared concern, share opportunities for collaboration and support.
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Sub-Saharan Africa grapples with development imperatives
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The evolution of the Freedom Index for Sub-Saharan Africa closely resembles that of the global average since 1995, with a very mild convergence. The same is also true for the subindexes of economic, political, and legal freedom. This is already good news for the region, as the trends are positive, but this does not capture the full story of freedom development in Africa. This is because the big movement towards liberalization, especially in terms of economic freedom, took place during the 1980–2000 period, so largely before the starting point of the Freedom and Prosperity Indexes data set.
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