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Africa needs to invest in itself.
Tensions over the role that credit rating agencies play in assessing African countries have broken into the open.
The problem with rating models applied to African countries is that they use a narrow definition of risk and don’t take into account qualitative factors.
Credit rating agencies are now responding to governance failures, not just macroeconomic trends.
Finance ministers should stay away from debt negotiations because their interests are more short term.
African countries can move from being price takers to price negotiators. They should be able to reduce debt costs, freeing up resources for development.
African finance ministries should push for lower interest rates on bonds.
The current approach to debt restructuring has failed Zambia.
President Hichilema’s self-styled ‘chief marketing officer’ approach has unlocked new investments from a diverse mix of partners.
Ghana’s finance ministry is struggling to build consensus on the country’s debt burden.
African countries are essentially placed in the position of a supplicant appealing to the kindness of creditors.
A prolonged Russian-Ukraine conflict will cause further economic troubles for Ghana.
Ghana’s economy is in its most precarious state in decades.
Whoever wins the elections will face two key challenges: reviving the country’s democratic credentials and stimulating the economy.
Eurobonds are costly for governments. But they are also attractive because investors buy them without preconditions.
African countries should tread carefully over the debt relief offered by multilateral institutions and other lenders. It could prove very costly in the medium to long term.
Another EU leaders’ meeting, another humdrum announcement afterwards.
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.
Prospective investors have the task of turning round an industry beset by technical challenges and incomplete planning
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