From microenterprise to national fiscal policy.

Africa's economic development story is being told in the wrong language. Microenterprise data sits in programme reports. Fiscal multiplier effects go unmeasured. The economic contribution of informal sector development, women-led enterprise growth, and community-level capital formation is almost entirely absent from the conversations that drive national resource allocation.

The result is a systematic underinvestment in the interventions that work, and continued funding of frameworks that don't, because the evidence that would redirect capital has never been built, synthesised, or translated into the language that moves Treasury, development finance institutions, and international funders.