A connected intelligence platform for African markets.
Africa Economic Review provides macroeconomic intelligence, country analysis, sovereign and market risk monitoring, research workflows, scenario analysis and credit-quality technical assistance for institutions operating across Africa.
Decision-grade coverage
AER is designed for investment, lending, policy, credit, market-entry and board-level decisions where African country context matters.
Connected intelligence graph
The platform links countries, indicators, sources, risks, events, research, scenarios, reports and credit-improvement actions.
Institutional workflow
Research desks, risk teams, public institutions, enterprises and development institutions can work from shared evidence and structured outputs.
Turning fragmented economic information into governed intelligence.
African market decisions often rely on scattered public data, intermittent research, PDF-heavy disclosures and uneven reporting quality. AER brings core inputs into one governed environment: data, sources, indicators, country profiles, risk methodology, scenarios, research and reports.
For institutions assessing risk and opportunity
AER helps investors, banks, DFIs, corporates and advisory teams monitor macro conditions, compare countries, interpret events and prepare committee-ready materials.
For institutions improving assessment quality
AER supports sovereigns, municipalities, SOEs and enterprises with diagnostics, evidence rooms, roadmaps, funding readiness and credit-assessment improvement workflows.
Every conclusion should be explainable.
AER links insight to source records, indicator values, methodology notes, analyst review, scenarios and exportable evidence packs.
Source records, update frequency, reliability and methodology notes support confidence.
Research and risk outputs move through drafting, review, approval and publication.
Country briefs, risk reports, scenario packs and board materials are structured for decision forums.
AER Country Risk Score
Composite institutional risk view combining sovereign, external, inflation, debt, fiscal and political-event dimensions. The score is designed for monitoring and committee escalation, not as a public credit rating.
Scale & governance
| Score scale | 0-100, where higher scores indicate higher monitoring concern. 0-39 low, 40-64 watch, 65-79 elevated, 80-100 severe. |
| Review cycle | Monthly baseline review, event-driven updates when triggers breach thresholds. |
| Methodology owner | Africa Economic Review Research Desk |
| Last reviewed | 31 Jul 2026 |
| Next scheduled review | 14 Sep 2026 |
Category weights
Debt sustainability, market access, ratings pressure and refinancing capacity.
Reserve adequacy, currency pressure, convertibility and external liquidity stress.
Price stability, pass-through, food and fuel pressure and monetary credibility.
Debt stock, service burden, maturity wall, guarantees and contingent liabilities.
Revenue performance, deficit discipline, expenditure rigidity and budget credibility.
Current account, export concentration, terms of trade and import cover.
Election cycle, policy continuity, social risk and geopolitical exposure.
This is a risk index, not a credit rating.
AER uses "risk index" and "economic intelligence score" deliberately — marketing these outputs as credit ratings can trigger credit-rating-agency regulation in some jurisdictions (South Africa's FSCA, ESMA, SEC/NRSRO). Formal rating-agency registration is a separate, legally-advised undertaking AER has not pursued.