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Rich-country guarantees would allow prudent governments to cut their debt costs and spend more on development, write Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh and Nzioka Waita
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A new crop of health deals is unlikely to meet the needs of recipient countries

Reforms to limit debt accumulation seemed to have worked—in the countries lucky enough to have enacted them

The longer autocrats stay in power, the worse they become

Since 1913, even default has been more common

Africa attracts record foreign investment as economies show resilience despite aid cuts and rising commodity costs from Middle…

The continent’s fintechs want to ease cross-border payments