Sovereign creditworthiness is interpreted and reassessed through several overlapping evaluations.
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There have been notable examples of rating agencies differing significantly in their decisions on African institutions and countries.
Africa needs to invest in itself.
The flaws in Standard & Poor’s Global’s report could influence investor perceptions and reinforce existing biases against Africa.
Tensions over the role that credit rating agencies play in assessing African countries have broken into the open.
Credit rating agencies are now responding to governance failures, not just macroeconomic trends.
Treating Afreximbank and the Trade and Development Bank as commercial creditors would reduce their capacity to finance sustainable development in Africa.
A successful African rating agency would shift power in global finance.
South Africa could use its leadership role to champion the establishment of a global credit rating capacity building initiative.
The rating agency demoted the US government’s creditworthiness to AA+, its second-highest ranking, on Aug. 1, 2023.
African states say a pan-African rating agency will enable them to access capital and integrate the continent with global financial markets.
Moody’s acquisitions are a setback for the development of alternative rating agencies to compete against the monopoly of the ‘big three’.
Low-income countries that sought to spend more on health care during the pandemic have been hit with ratings downgrades, while others avoided borrowing entirely.
The Commonwealth can never become insolvent. It ought to help out the states.
The first trading day after Moody’s cut the UK to three notches below Aaa, the markets shrugged.
Starting to feel a little more optimistic? Look away now.
The alarm being raised by multilateral financial institutions about rising government debt across Africa is exaggerated. The real problem is that African governments pay way over the odds for debt.
Since the first “climate awareness bond” was issued in 2007, the green-bond market has flourished. But how can investors judge their risk and effectiveness?
African countries need to find a way to present a common front to the rating agencies.
In announcing free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma, lobbed a populist hot potato at the ANC elective conference but it’s ordinary people whose fingers will be burnt.
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