The "African Economic Outlook" is a joint African Development Bank-OECD Development Centre project funded by the European Commission. The project combines the expertise accumulated by the OECD and the knowledge of the African Development Bank on African economies.

The African Economic Outlook is a joint African Development Bank-OECD Development Centre project funded by the European Commission. The project combines the expertise accumulated by the OECD, which produces the OECD Economic Outlook twice a year, and the knowledge of the African Development Bank on African economies. The objective is to review annually the recent economic situation and the likely short-term evolutions of selected African countries using a unique analytical design. This common framework includes a forecasting exercise for 2002 and the following year using a simple macroeconomic model, together with an analysis of the social and political context. The book also contains a comparative synthesis of African country prospects, placing the evolution of African economies in the world economic context. A statistical appendix completes the volume.