Les 33 milliards de dollars de droits de tirage du FMI accordés aux pays africains après le COVID n'ont ni accru leur dette, ni été assortis de conditions, ni coûté aux donateurs.
- Professor of Global Development Policy and Director, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
The $33 billion that African countries received under the IMF’s special drawing rights after COVID didn’t add to their debt, came without conditions and didn’t cost donors a cent.
A two-part new approach to helping countries manage their debt would improve the situation for governments as well as their creditors.
Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.
So far, he has not given any hints that his team is hatching a parallel set of economic policies that will benefit all Americans, let alone the world economy.
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