CPIA Africa, June 2015

The Country Policy and Institutional
Assessment (CPIA) Africa report describes the progress
African countries are making on strengthening the quality of
their policies and institutions. Some of the results from
this report include: The overall quality of policies and
institutions in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa was
unchanged in 2014, but there was much variation in
performance across countries. More than half the countries
in the region saw a change in their policy environment: 10
countries experienced an improvement in their overall CPIA
score, and an equal number saw a deterioration. There were
divergent trends across policy clusters. Economic management
weekend on the back of continuing fiscal policy slippage, as
the sharp drop in commodity prices underscored weaknesses in
the fiscal framework of several of the regions countries. By
contrast, there was some strengthening in the governance
cluster, with nine countries showing improvements in scores,
more than twice the number of countries with declines. The
greatest progress in this cluster was in the quality of
budgetary and financial management.