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Recovery to be held back by fiscal constraint

A combination of falling inflation and looser monetary policy should help growth to accelerate across Sub-Saharan Africa from early next year. But tight fiscal policy will constrain the recovery and our growth forecasts sit below the consensus. Fiscal fears remain heightened with slippage an ever present danger given popular discontent, a potential trigger for more sovereign debt concerns in the region.

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