Blog
Four things to consider to improve public revenues in the Global South: New findings from the Government Revenue Dataset
by
Kyle McNabb, Annalena Oppel
October 2023
Across the Global South, governments continue efforts to increase domestic revenues and capacity for public spending. As concerns over debt distress...
Blog
Climate resilience and sustainable sovereign debt
by
Leora Klapper
December 2022
2022 is already a record-breaker in the number of climate change-related events, and developing countries must now pay for the repairs and remediation...
Working Paper
Public debt sustainability and debt dynamics
Rising public debt in sub-Saharan Africa remains a matter of concern. We provide an analysis of public debt and debt sustainability in Tanzania, focusing on external debt. Though current and previous analyses using the IMF-World Bank debt...
Blog
Paralyzing debt burden threatens Africa’s largest economy
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Geoffrey Adonu
June 2023
Apart from a ‘badly flawed’ national election, insecurity, and mass exodus of its young talents to the Global North (locally known as Japa), a...