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Impact of COVID-19: Nowcasting and Big Data to Track Economic Activity in Sub-Saharan Africa
2021
IMF Working Papers
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. We make two main contributions:
doi:10.5089/9781513582498.001
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