The global south does not need a new credit rating system
Reliable data and better investor relations offer a more promising path to reducing capital costs
Reliable data and better investor relations offer a more promising path to reducing capital costs

But it relies on a host of rosy assumptions going in investors’ favour

The sector remains untested in a severe or prolonged economic downturn

Plus the social media lawsuits

What matters most is how capital was deployed and underwritten

Total economic and financial insulation is an impossibility

The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage