Africa October 21, 2021 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Debt restructuring talk targets private creditors Sub-Saharan Africa, Politics Anne Frühauf, Malte Liewerscheidt While the G20 advocate for a recalibration of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s pandemic management support, reforms and more comprehensive solutions to debt problems remain a medium-term prospect. Yet in the hardest hit countries, pressure on private creditors to partake... Read More...
Africa August 23, 2021 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: IMF SDRs – trickle-down or redistribution? Sub-Saharan Africa, Politics Anne Frühauf, Malte Liewerscheidt The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) remains inadequate vis-a-vis the region’s external financing needs. Yet, the debate on how rich countries can transfer SDRs to countries in greater need has been dragging on for... Read More...
Africa July 23, 2021 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Third pandemic wave hits hardest Sub-Saharan Africa, Politics Anne Frühauf, Malte Liewerscheidt Sub-Saharan Africa remains in the grip of a fresh Covid-19 wave stretching health services and forcing some governments to re-impose at least limited restrictions. Following major supply disruption in Q2, the region’s vaccine pipeline for the remainder of 2021 has... Read More...
Africa July 15, 2021 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Eurobond Political Risk Monitor Sub-Saharan Africa, Emerging Markets, Politics Eurobonds, editorial Anne Frühauf, Malte Liewerscheidt Our Eurobond Political Risk Monitor, presented in the attached table, provides a go-to guide to the main political and policy issues in 17 sub-Saharan African (SSA) sovereigns that have issued Eurobonds as of July 2021. In this edition, our’Spotlights’... Read More...
