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Increased engagement with the Central Asian region can lead to mutually beneficial gains — both in economic and strategic terms.

10:47 AM MYT HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): The effective management of foreign loans has transformed Vietnam from a poor and heavily indebted country to one that international organisations consider to have a controlled external debt and is not in the group of countries with a debt burden. The information was released at a conference on national debt management held in Hanoi on Tuesday (Jan 26). Võ Hữu Hiển, the Ministry of Finances Deputy Director of Debt Management and External Finance Depar...

Vanguard News Nigeria’s debt stock rises to N32.22trn ― NBS On By Emmanuel Elebeke The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says Nigeria’s total foreign and domestic debt stood at N32.22trn in the Q3 of 2020. The bureau in its Nigerian Domestic and Foreign Debt for Q3 2020 published on its website said Nigerian States and Federal Debt Stock data as of 30th September 2020 reflected that the country’s total public debt portfolio stood at N32.22trn in the Q3 of 2020. The survey indicates t...

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says Nigeria’s total foreign and domestic debt stood at N32.22trn in the Q3 of 2020.

11 January 2021 Author: Dushni Weerakoon, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka The unprecedented disruptions of COVID-19 are causing a geopolitical reset — and as the global order is redrawn, small emerging market economies like Sri Lanka are vulnerable to the fallout. Sri Lanka straddles vital shipping routes and is at the centre of diplomatic spats between China and the United States, who called on Sri Lanka to make ‘difficult but necessary choices’ over its growing economic and pol...

Johannesburg, South Africa                       The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) will host a regional conference on 2 and 3 July in Johannesburg, South Africa. The two-day multi-stakeholder conference emanates from concern about southern African countries’ rising debt levels, which threaten developmental aspirations. Despite numerous commitments to achieve and maintain sustainable levels of public debt, southern African countries are not only reneging on the...

As the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa’s (OSISA) regional conference on southern Africa’s conundrum opened in Johannesburg today, there was little agreement in the conference room. One word – conundrum – kept both speakers and the audience poles apart as they attempted to decipher what the word means in a context of rising debt levels, state bureaucratic ambivalence and a changing outlook on the movement of international finance on the African continent. Speaking at the conf...