
Project

Theme: Fiscal space
Apart from a ‘badly flawed’ national election, insecurity, and mass exodus of its young talents to the Global North (locally known as Japa), a...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)’s public debt burden remains a challenge to development. Key drivers of public debt include large-scale financing of infrastructure development, adverse impact of multiple shocks including COVID-19 pandemic, maturity...
Across the Global South, governments continue efforts to increase domestic revenues and capacity for public spending. As concerns over debt distress...
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...
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...
IntroductionSince the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, total public debt has increased by approximately 10 percentage points of global GDP. The most recent IMF Fiscal Monitor shows that debt rose from 103% to 109% of GDP in advanced economies, from...