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Board: Martina Björkman-Nyqvist, Michael Callen, Cesi Cruz, David Lagakos, Joana Naritomi, Oliver Hanney & Emaan Siddique
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📢 Revolutions in computing have led to the rapid development and deployment of a new set of programmes to support student learning.
At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use.
Subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use.
🆕 Intimate partner violence: Causes, costs and prevention
In today's podcast, Manisha Shah (UC Berkeley) discusses what we have learned about intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries: voxdev.org/topic/health...
In today's podcast, Manisha Shah (UC Berkeley) discusses what we have learned about intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries: voxdev.org/topic/health...
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🆕 Intimate partner violence: Causes, costs and prevention
In today's podcast, Manisha Shah (UC Berkeley) discusses what we have learned about intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries: voxdev.org/topic/health...
In today's podcast, Manisha Shah (UC Berkeley) discusses what we have learned about intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries: voxdev.org/topic/health...
🆕 Subsidising healthcare helps children get the care they need
Today on VoxDev, Anja Sautmann and Mark Dean outline how subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, Anja Sautmann and Mark Dean outline how subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Subsidising healthcare helps children get the care they need
Subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🆕 Subsidising healthcare helps children get the care they need
Today on VoxDev, Anja Sautmann and Mark Dean outline how subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, Anja Sautmann and Mark Dean outline how subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use: voxdev.org/topic/health...
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📢 Revolutions in computing have led to the rapid development and deployment of a new set of programmes to support student learning.
At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
📢 Revolutions in computing have led to the rapid development and deployment of a new set of programmes to support student learning.
At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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I really enjoyed being part of this project. Mehrab took the lead on designing this fantastic data! What we found has really changed the way I think about empowerment. It's a cautionary tale, with a note of optimism.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I really enjoyed being part of this project. Mehrab took the lead on designing this fantastic data! What we found has really changed the way I think about empowerment. It's a cautionary tale, with a note of optimism.
When couples receive a cash transfer, who decides how to spend it? Are budgets equal?
Today's article finds that in Nigeria, both husbands and wives divided budgets relatively equally, but women were far more likely to defer the decision to their husband.
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Today's article finds that in Nigeria, both husbands and wives divided budgets relatively equally, but women were far more likely to defer the decision to their husband.
Learn more ⤵️
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
When couples receive a cash transfer, who decides how to spend it? Are budgets equal?
Today's article finds that in Nigeria, both husbands and wives divided budgets relatively equally, but women were far more likely to defer the decision to their husband.
Learn more ⤵️
Today's article finds that in Nigeria, both husbands and wives divided budgets relatively equally, but women were far more likely to defer the decision to their husband.
Learn more ⤵️
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🆕 Cash transfers & agency: What Nigerian couples reveal about household power
Mehrab Bakhtiar @ifpri.org, Marcel Fafchamps, @markusgold.bsky.social @cgdev.org, Kenneth Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni on the interplay between empowerment & norms ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/social...
Mehrab Bakhtiar @ifpri.org, Marcel Fafchamps, @markusgold.bsky.social @cgdev.org, Kenneth Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni on the interplay between empowerment & norms ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/social...
Cash transfers and agency: What Nigerian couples reveal about household power
In Nigeria, cash transfers to women increase their desire for agency but only when husbands can't see it – revealing the complex interplay between economic empowerment and social norms.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🆕 Cash transfers & agency: What Nigerian couples reveal about household power
Mehrab Bakhtiar @ifpri.org, Marcel Fafchamps, @markusgold.bsky.social @cgdev.org, Kenneth Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni on the interplay between empowerment & norms ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/social...
Mehrab Bakhtiar @ifpri.org, Marcel Fafchamps, @markusgold.bsky.social @cgdev.org, Kenneth Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni on the interplay between empowerment & norms ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/social...
🆕 Cash transfers & agency: What Nigerian couples reveal about household power
Mehrab Bakhtiar @ifpri.org, Marcel Fafchamps, @markusgold.bsky.social @cgdev.org, Kenneth Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni on the interplay between empowerment & norms ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/social...
Mehrab Bakhtiar @ifpri.org, Marcel Fafchamps, @markusgold.bsky.social @cgdev.org, Kenneth Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni on the interplay between empowerment & norms ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/social...
Cash transfers and agency: What Nigerian couples reveal about household power
In Nigeria, cash transfers to women increase their desire for agency but only when husbands can't see it – revealing the complex interplay between economic empowerment and social norms.
voxdev.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🆕 Cash transfers & agency: What Nigerian couples reveal about household power
Mehrab Bakhtiar @ifpri.org, Marcel Fafchamps, @markusgold.bsky.social @cgdev.org, Kenneth Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni on the interplay between empowerment & norms ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/social...
Mehrab Bakhtiar @ifpri.org, Marcel Fafchamps, @markusgold.bsky.social @cgdev.org, Kenneth Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni on the interplay between empowerment & norms ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/social...
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A persistent puzzle in development economics is why calorie consumption has fallen among India's poorest despite ⬆️ incomes & ⬇️ poverty rates.
Today's article shows that rising inequality is a big part of the answer - inequality alters what poor households perceive as necessary.
Today's article shows that rising inequality is a big part of the answer - inequality alters what poor households perceive as necessary.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A persistent puzzle in development economics is why calorie consumption has fallen among India's poorest despite ⬆️ incomes & ⬇️ poverty rates.
Today's article shows that rising inequality is a big part of the answer - inequality alters what poor households perceive as necessary.
Today's article shows that rising inequality is a big part of the answer - inequality alters what poor households perceive as necessary.
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A @voxdev.bsky.social column on the impact of public education through the lens of economic history, by my (former) student Ben Milner @benjaminlm.bsky.social.
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voxdev.org/topic/educat...
How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A @voxdev.bsky.social column on the impact of public education through the lens of economic history, by my (former) student Ben Milner @benjaminlm.bsky.social.
voxdev.org/topic/educat...
voxdev.org/topic/educat...
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Just 30 years after the 1870 Education Act introduced publicly funded schools, they had an attendance 1.9 million children.
Due to these schools, the gap in attaining literate occupations between lower- and higher-class children fell by approximately 18% in treated areas.
Due to these schools, the gap in attaining literate occupations between lower- and higher-class children fell by approximately 18% in treated areas.
🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
voxdev.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Just 30 years after the 1870 Education Act introduced publicly funded schools, they had an attendance 1.9 million children.
Due to these schools, the gap in attaining literate occupations between lower- and higher-class children fell by approximately 18% in treated areas.
Due to these schools, the gap in attaining literate occupations between lower- and higher-class children fell by approximately 18% in treated areas.
Aid agencies and governments spend more than a billion US$ on entrepreneurship training annually. What have we learned about the effectiveness of training?
Read Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs to find out: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/training-entrepreneurs
Read Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs to find out: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/training-entrepreneurs
Training Entrepreneurs: Issue 4
Aid agencies and governments spend more than a billion US$ on entrepreneurship training annually. What have we learned about the effectiveness of training? We review the current understanding of enterprise training. Firms and entrepreneurs are not all the same, and many programmes are targeted to specific types of businesses. Our review is modular, designed so that readers interested in one particular topic do not need to read the entire review. We summarise the state of knowledge in each section as follows:Traditional entrepreneurship training has modest but (across studies) significant...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Aid agencies and governments spend more than a billion US$ on entrepreneurship training annually. What have we learned about the effectiveness of training?
Read Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs to find out: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/training-entrepreneurs
Read Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs to find out: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/training-entrepreneurs
Just 30 years after the 1870 Education Act introduced publicly funded schools, they had an attendance 1.9 million children.
Due to these schools, the gap in attaining literate occupations between lower- and higher-class children fell by approximately 18% in treated areas.
Due to these schools, the gap in attaining literate occupations between lower- and higher-class children fell by approximately 18% in treated areas.
🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
voxdev.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Just 30 years after the 1870 Education Act introduced publicly funded schools, they had an attendance 1.9 million children.
Due to these schools, the gap in attaining literate occupations between lower- and higher-class children fell by approximately 18% in treated areas.
Due to these schools, the gap in attaining literate occupations between lower- and higher-class children fell by approximately 18% in treated areas.
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🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
voxdev.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
voxdev.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
A persistent puzzle in development economics is why calorie consumption has fallen among India's poorest despite ⬆️ incomes & ⬇️ poverty rates.
Today's article shows that rising inequality is a big part of the answer - inequality alters what poor households perceive as necessary.
Today's article shows that rising inequality is a big part of the answer - inequality alters what poor households perceive as necessary.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A persistent puzzle in development economics is why calorie consumption has fallen among India's poorest despite ⬆️ incomes & ⬇️ poverty rates.
Today's article shows that rising inequality is a big part of the answer - inequality alters what poor households perceive as necessary.
Today's article shows that rising inequality is a big part of the answer - inequality alters what poor households perceive as necessary.
Inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition for ‘little luxuries’, reshaping basic needs and worsening malnutrition.
Read today's article to learn more:
Read today's article to learn more:
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition for ‘little luxuries’, reshaping basic needs and worsening malnutrition.
Read today's article to learn more:
Read today's article to learn more:
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🆕 Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition for ‘little luxuries’, reshaping basic needs and worsening malnutrition. The implications for poverty programmes are large.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🆕 Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
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Conflict and trade are two forces that have shaped 2025. A new @voxdev.bsky.social article written by Laurier econ prof Zara Liaqat and her co-author shows a surprising link between the two! A 2016 terrorist attack in Kashmir that India blamed on Pakistan affected Pakistani-Indian trade flows.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Conflict and trade are two forces that have shaped 2025. A new @voxdev.bsky.social article written by Laurier econ prof Zara Liaqat and her co-author shows a surprising link between the two! A 2016 terrorist attack in Kashmir that India blamed on Pakistan affected Pakistani-Indian trade flows.
This week we featured research on debt, inequality, conflict, government and more!
Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-21112025
Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-21112025
This week in development economics at VoxDev: 21/11/2025
This week we featured research on debt, inequality, conflict, government and more!
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November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This week we featured research on debt, inequality, conflict, government and more!
Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-21112025
Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-21112025
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VoxDev invited us to write about our work on how inequality affects the hierarchy of needs. Not every paper gets the chance to reach people who can actually use it, so we're really glad this one will!
🆕 Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition for ‘little luxuries’, reshaping basic needs and worsening malnutrition. The implications for poverty programmes are large.
ow.ly
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
VoxDev invited us to write about our work on how inequality affects the hierarchy of needs. Not every paper gets the chance to reach people who can actually use it, so we're really glad this one will!
🆕 Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition for ‘little luxuries’, reshaping basic needs and worsening malnutrition. The implications for poverty programmes are large.
ow.ly
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🆕 Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU
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Prof. Maddie McKelway co-wrote this article in @voxdev.bsky.social with Namrata Kala from MIT: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
The power of persuasion: How communication training helps more women enter the workforce and earn more
Training women in assertive communication in India enabled them to more effectively persuade their husbands to support their participation in the workforce – leading to substantial and sustained incre...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Prof. Maddie McKelway co-wrote this article in @voxdev.bsky.social with Namrata Kala from MIT: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
A new open-access dataset covering more than 50,000 loans and securities issued by 54 African countries reveals that African governments now raise more than half of their financing at home, reversing decades of dependence on external lenders.
Read today's article to learn more:
Read today's article to learn more:
🆕 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 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
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...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A new open-access dataset covering more than 50,000 loans and securities issued by 54 African countries reveals that African governments now raise more than half of their financing at home, reversing decades of dependence on external lenders.
Read today's article to learn more:
Read today's article to learn more: