Africa's Fiscal Space, Fragility and Conflict: A Compendium of Papers Presented at the 2022 OSAA-ACBF Academic Conference

The United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA), in collaboration with the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), virtually convened an Academic Conference under the theme "Africa’s Fiscal Space, Fragility and Conflict" from 22 to 24 February 2022. The Conference is a new flagship product of OSAA and is linked to its advisory and advocacy functions. The Conference also seeks to bridge the knowledge gap, boost information-sharing and build the capacity of policymakers, including African diplomatic officials, enabling them to participate actively in the United Nations intergovernmental processes.

Through the Conference, OSAA aims to establish a platform for academia to contribute towards shaping and influencing the narrative about Africa while providing the opportunity to discuss ways and means to expand fiscal space, advance sustainable development, avert deterioration of fragility, and prevent conflicts on the continent in the context of recovery and building forward better from the pandemic.

This compendium contains the research papers and proceedings of the OSAA-ACBF Academic Conference. The papers were selected by a committee of OSAA and ACBF members, who also chose the topics for the event and selected the panelists.

Aiming to support African research on the theme of the Conference and present its key out-comes, these papers are clustered around three sub-themes, including debt sustainability and its impact on fragility and conflict; illicit financial flows, decentralization, and their impacts on fiscal space in Africa; and Building Africa’s resilience to shocks and advancing an inclusive, equitable and peaceful society in Africa.

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