How effective policies help countries rely on their own resources and lower the hidden costs of trade.

🎤 Read the interview of 🎓 Ka Lok Wong @stevekwong.bsky.social, exposing his research on the quite forces behind development
#internationaleconomics #phd @gvagrad.bsky.social

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Africa’s domestic debt boom: New evidence from the African Debt Database Africa’s total public debt has risen more than fourfold since the early 2000s, but just as important as the increase in debt volumes is the shift in structure. This column uses a new open-access dataset covering more than 50,000 loans and securities issued by 54 African countries to reveal that African governments now raise more than half of their financing at home, reversing decades of dependence on external lenders. While the rise of domestic debt markets may deepen financial systems, foster local investor bases, and enhance monetary autonomy, the authors warn that the line between...

🆕 Africa’s domestic debt boom: New evidence from the African Debt Database

Today on VoxDev via VoxEU @ CEPR w/ Mark Manger (UofT), Ugo Panizza (Geneva Graduate Institute), Niccolò Rescia (Global Sovereign Advisory), Christoph Trebesch (Kiel) & Ka Lok Wong (Steve) (UN): https://ow.ly/gsIr50XuzLM

🌍 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.

$7.5 here in Addis, and it’s not mutti

So this seem on point…

More than happy to share that I’ve joined UNECA at Addis Ababa as economist since Feb 1. It’s been a journey in Geneva, I’m grateful to the time and opportunity through the past 5 years with @gvagrad.bsky.social , and @upanizza.bsky.social whom brought me into the realm of sovereign debt.

Assessing the Debt Sustainability Analysis Methodology in the EU’s New Economic Governance Framework | Think Tank | European Parliament Assessing the Debt Sustainability Analysis Methodology in the EU’s New Economic Governance Framework

📢 for Debt Nerds

Aitor Erce's review of the EU Debt Sustainability Analysis Methodology.

He concludes that its "most significant weakness of DSA framework is how it handles uncertainty"

Full report here
www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

Dollar’s surge sparks biggest fall in emerging market currencies in 2 years Developing economies also suffering from ‘confluence of bad news’

Fama puzzle strikes again? #Econsky

Btw PhDs in Switzerland pay quite decently!

Saved us tons of time