One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.