WB Law Justice & Development Week 2025, livestream session "Navigating the Legal Complexities of Sovereign Debt," 4 November 4PM moderated by Nicole Kearse, speakers from IMF, African regional institutes, Liberia, AfDB, @agelpern.bsky.social www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
You said it all, Sir. Thanks to you, to @levmenand.bsky.social, Carola Binder @utaustin.bsky.social and Paul Tucker @harvardkennedy.bsky.social for illuminating this moment in the central bank independence debate @piie.com.
Goodbye, #DebtCon8 … until we meet again, because that’s what #DebtCon is about @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social
the platform brings together academics, lawyers, and data scientists to advance debt transparency and public access to sovereign debt information.
Developed through an interdisciplinary collaboration between Sovereign Debt Forum, Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law, and Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute
Now live at #DebtCon8: the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform — the first web-based, centrally collated sovereign debt documentation and data commons.
🔗 Explore the platform here: publicdebtispublic.mdi.georgetown.edu
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🌍 Today at #DebtCon8 we’re launching the African Debt Database (ADD). The 1st instrument-level dataset covering both domestic and external sovereign debt across the African continent.
With @markya.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social Niccolò Rescia, Christoph Trebesch, and Ka Lok Wong.
📂 Explore the open-access data:
👉 africandebtdatabase.com
📄 Read the associated paper:
“Africa’s Domestic Debt Boom: Evidence from the African Debt Database”
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Thanks to Princeton SPIA in DC for hosting us on Monday, Day 1 of #DebtCon8 Starting at dawn with the existential question: Liquidity?! @princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social #SovereignDebtForum @findevlab.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social
It's the most wonderful time of the year....for debt geeks. @agelpern.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social and I are so excited to welcome folks to DebtCon8!
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Join us for #DebtCon8, held in Washington, DC on October 13-15, 2025!
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@upanizza.bsky.social #DebtCon8 is real & it’s 1glorious #DebtCon 3days 75papers 15panels 11 RTs 99speakers fr 6continents +10^6 #sovereigndebt acronyms eg #PSI #DSA #PCS #PDIP & #OMG aka #Argentina @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @robinwigglesworth.ft.com @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
Jet lagged but happy to be back in the US fior #DebCon8
Less than two weeks left ‘til the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform launch at #DebtCon8! 😮 #sovereigndebt #debtcon #sovereigndebtforum @georgetownlawofficial @upanizza.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social
A new study by Kiel Institute on How China Collateralizes show how rather than infrastructure as collateral, it's cash collateral in escrow reserves paid by debtor's commodity exports which underpin such agreements. Governance implications.
www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...
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Hey D.C. friends! If you see billboards or posters in the District from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social demanding federal agents take off their mask, be sure to take a picture and share it!
Totally agree, but, in the meantime, Maryland could offer free vaccines to residents of D.C.,and ask fellow pro-science states to help with the cost.
Reason No. 9000 for #DCStatehood.
"There really is one crucial, unbridgeable difference between Washingtonians and other Americans: You have more power than we do—a lot more power"
Statehood for DC!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
An ACLU tweet against a backdrop of D.C. rowhomes reads, "We need DC statehood NOW."
Micromanaging the day-to-day affairs of D.C. is not what voters elected the president and members of Congress in their home states to accomplish.
We need D.C. statehood NOW: dcstatehoodnow.org
Take it from the citizens of DC. This is all a distraction, and another power grab that threatens the health of our democracy.
op: @washingtonpost.com
What happens is negotiated. What should happen depends on all-in terms, which can be hard to discern.
“We see Chinese lenders expanding and adapting standard market tools to make exceptionally risky loans safer,” said Anna Gelpern, a Georgetown Law Professor and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “ @agelpern.bsky.social www.aiddata.org/blog/chinese...
"How China Collateralizes" ist eine Zusammenarbeit unserer Autor*innen Christoph Trebesch, Sebastian Horn und Paulina Kintzinger mit @agelpern.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @piie.com, Omar Haddad und Bradley Parks AidData @wm.edu
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DebtNerds drinks at the very cool Ground Control in Paris with @agelpern.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @theomaret.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social
Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”
*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
It takes years to become convinced of one’s own brilliant argument, my friend. 😎
Huge thanks to @taicollab.bsky.social and our amazing community for hosting the first sneak peak preview of the #publicdebispublic platform @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @massivedatagu.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social #sovereigndebt Stay tuned for pilot demo at #DebtCon8
5/ The legal side is just as important. Most contracts assume hard enforcement — but sovereign debt lives in a gray zone. Lawyers and economists often speak past each other. We try to bridge that gap
