AfriEconQA: A Benchmark for Quantitative and Temporal Reasoning over World Bank Economic Reports

arXiv:2601.15297 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-01-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-01-06

Updated: 2026-10-13

Comments: Dataset Explorer: https://afrieconqa.pages.dev/

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Terminology

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• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 18 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• M3-Embedding: Multi-Linguality, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Granularity Text Embeddings Through Self-Knowledge Distillation
• FinanceBench: A New Benchmark for Financial Question Answering
• SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text

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