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Kevin Carey @kevincareywb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Senegal debt. Options paper by Abdoulaye Ndiaye (NYU) & Martin Kessler (FinDevLab Paris). "There may be some doubts about the future level of the interest bill, which appears low relative to what we know about the stock." Read the whole thing. findevlab.org/debt-crisis-...

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Debt Crisis in Senegal: A Strategic Compass

By Abdoulaye Ndiaye (NYU Stern School of Business) & Martin Kessler (FDL) A Strategic Compass for Navigating Senegal's Debt Crisis Download Policy

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Initiative for Policy Dialogue @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

As the launch wraps up, check out coverage we’ve gotten from around the world. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... www.reuters.com/world/vatica... www.jeuneafrique.com/1698843/econ... www.catholicregister.org/item/2403-fi... oglobo.globo.com/blogs/miriam... www.infobae.com/economia/202...

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Developing countries ‘need more debt relief’ to fund education and health

Research warns poorer governments prioritising debt payments over essential development spending

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Initiative for Policy Dialogue @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Cardinal Turkson reads statement from Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State, at Jubilee Report Launch.

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Initiative for Policy Dialogue @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The Vatican-backed Jubilee Report in now live! Join us for the Virtual Launch today, June 20, 9am to 5pm Rome: gsb-columbia-edu.zoom.us/j/92116812349 Read report: bit.ly/4kNj3e8 #JubileeReport @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @martinguzman.bsky.social

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The Vatican-backed Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and Creating the Financial Foundations for a Sustainable People-Centered Global Economy launches today! #JubileeReport, #Jubilee2025, #TurnDebtIntoHope

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José Antonio Sanahuja @jasanahuja.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🤔 Oportuno artículo de Martin Kessler @mkessler.bsky.social sobre Trump 2.0 y el escenario global de la financiación para el desarrollo, a discutir en el marco de 🇺🇳 en Sevilla: multilateralismo debilitado, multipolaridad regionalizada, bilateralismo oportunista👇 legrandcontinent.eu/es/2025/05/2...

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La era de la fragmentación oportunista: pensar las finanzas del desarrollo tras Trump - El Grand Continent

«America First is not America alone». Sobre el multilateralismo y las instituciones de Bretton Woods: Washington intenta por todos los medios torcer el sistema a su favor —sin salir completamente de ...

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b-eichengreen.bsky.social @b-eichengreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

David Feldman, been there, done that: www.jstor.org/stable/10612...

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Anna Gelpern @agelpern.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Countdown to #DebtCon8 paper deadline! March 31 is it. Six. Days. Don’t sleep on it y’all. #debtcon #sovereigndebt #PublicDebtIsPublic @upanizza.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social www.law.georgetown.edu/iiel/initiat...

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Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab @princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A reminder that the call for papers deadline for the 2025 DebtCon8 meeting, October 13-15 at Georgetown Law School, is March 31. More information here: www.law.georgetown.edu/iiel/initiat... (Policy panel proposals accepted through April 30) @laynamosley.bsky.social

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🌍💰 New Paper by Adil Ababou of @gatesfoundation.bsky.social : “Debt for what swaps?" setting out 3 guiding principles to ensure the potential of swap resources is optimized: 1️⃣ Define LT vision 2️⃣ Target expenditures for LT financing 3️⃣ Ensure additionality with government spending.

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🌍💡 New Policy Note just released! “Planning and Implementing the Climate and Development Transformation: Country Platforms as Enablers”. Drafted in partnership with #C3A. #ClimateAction #SustainableDevelopment #FinanceForDevelopment #CountryPlatforms

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🌍🤝 Opening of the 2025 Amplifying African Voices dialogue series w/ Prof Tang Xiaoyang (Tsinghua Univ) & Hannah Ryder (Dev Reimagined). Dive into the evolution of #ChinaAfrica relations: new models for engagement?#Africa #Investment #DebtRestructuring #AAV

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚨 New Policy Paper Alert! 📄 📢 "HOW THE UK CAN PLUG THE ODA HOLE?" ➡️ On February 28, 2025, PM Keir Starmer announced a significant ODA reduction from 0.5% to 0.3% of GNI, translating to a projected £6.2 billion cut to the UK's aid budget!

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

📈 Focusing on the 2019 debt situation, Marin Ferry and Ishac Diwan uncovered significant differences in how countries managed their borrowing after the 2000s debt reduction schemes. 💡 Not all nations that borrowed extensively fell into crisis.

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🌍 Why are developing countries heavily indebted, again? 🤔 Our latest analysis by Marin Ferry and Ishac Diwan reveals that the debt crises affecting poorer nations are not as inevitable as they seem.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨for development nerds: the new draft of the #FfD4 outcome doc is OUT! At 1st glance, it seems quite similar w/ a few welcome steps up in ambition, including a new target to 3x MDB lending in next 10 yrs + a call for debt relief to favor concessional creditors financing.desa.un.org/sites/defaul...

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Martin Kessler @mkessler.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Which interview are you speaking about? And are there any decent sources explaining a bit groyper/BAP vocabulary/thinking without going into too deep rabbitholes?

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Kevin Carey @kevincareywb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Eurobond prospectuses referencing the USAID disruptions: "Kenya, a major beneficiary of USAID, has been significantly impacted, with thousands of health workers facing retrenchment. The temporary 90-day waiver permits some continued aid, but long-term stability remains uncertain. The Kenyan ..."

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Bernat Camps Adrogué @bernatcamps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The African Financing Stability Mechanism (AFSM) technical and operational report is finally out! Africa is the only continent without a Regional Financing Arrangement, making this initiative a game changer to address African financial vulnerabilities. www.afdb.org/en/documents...

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African Financing Stability Mechanism (AFSM) Technical and Operational Report

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Martin Kessler @mkessler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Can smarter people explain to me why Egypt is 21% richer than South Africa ($18.5k in GDP per capita PPP vs. $15.2) but is a lower middle-income country while South Africa is UMIC? Is it about GNI/GDP or Atlas method? Anyway - it's weird!

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Sebastian Grund @sebgrund.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

1/ 📢New paper alert: "The International Financial Architecture and Sovereign Debt Crisis Resolution" by @clemensgvl.bsky.social, Juan Farah Yacoub and myself: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Short 🧵👇

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Ugo Panizza @upanizza.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

🔥 CALL TO ARMS, DEBTNERDS! 🔥 DebtCon is BACK where it all began. Don't miss the 10-year anniversary conference. 📅 Mark your calendars, sharpen your pencils, and send in those papers. @agelpern.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

📣 📚 New Release! We just published a Working Paper along with a comprehensive database that spans 1️⃣1️⃣ years and includes 6️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries. Our goal is to allow researchers to dig into how debt projections are made and their impact.

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Authors: @mkessler.bsky.social @brendanhv.bsky.social and Antoine Gaudin Let us know what you think!

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Finance for Development Lab @findevlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

📣 📊 The latest World Bank International Debt Statistics 2024 reveal a worsening crisis for developing countries. With rising global interest rates & capital outflows, financial fragility is at an all-time high. Read our Short Note👇. #DebtCrisis #GlobalEconomy

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Martin Kessler @mkessler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Our first bluesky substantive post ! How do we get viral here ?

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Layna Mosley @laynamosley.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Die Hard is about a (prospective) bondholder claiming coupon and principal payments on (now obsolete) debt securities. Die Hard is a sovereign finance movie.

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Devex @devex.com · 13/12/2024

Contributors to this opinion piece were: - Mma Amara (Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA)) - Rob Floyd (African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)) - @mkessler.bsky.social (@findevlab.bsky.social) - Beverly Musili (Oxfam)

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Kevin Carey @kevincareywb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

World Bank / Cote d'Ivoire debt for development (education) swap: for those who want to dig into all the details of the swap, here's the loan document for the guarantee part of it including description of the overall transaction. documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

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Côte d'Ivoire - Third Investment for Growth Development Policy Financing Project

The development objective of Third Investment for Growth Development Policy Financing Project for Côte d'Ivoire is to: (1) strengthen competition in key enabling sectors .

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Martin Kessler @mkessler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Wow I missed this! Please send - we need to test, just in time for the new IDS

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Teal @tealemery.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It's happening.... The World Bank's International Debt Statistics (IDS) are a fantastic resource. And a total pain in the ass to work with... Until now. {wbids} - an #Rstats package for efficiently getting and working with IDS data. Expect an MVP by eom... #EconSky #FinSky

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Good news the UK IDA 21 pledge of $2.5bn is up from the $2bn pledge at IDA 20. Of course IDA 20 was a nadir. There’s a reception to celebrate the new pledge. Given it is worth 53% of the UK IDA 19 pledge in 2020, I hope glasses are charged half-full. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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New UK investment to unlock billions to tackle root causes of irregular migration, climate change and growth crises

UK announces contribution to International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s fund for the world’s lowest income countries

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Daniel Munevar @danielmunevar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Great overview of status and main characteristics of the wave of recent debt restructurings by JPM. Useful to think about comparisons with historical benchmarks. In most cases NPV relief is below historical median of 38-42%. A harbinger of serial restructurings?

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Martin Kessler @mkessler.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It is an honor to be part of such a distinguished list of nerds.

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m thinking a lot about perverse incentives in the CJ system & how to fix them. Ex: which level of govt should pay for incarceration - the state (which operates prisons) or counties (which make sentencing decisions)? Check out my interview w Aurelie Ouss! www.probablecausation.com/podcasts/epi...

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Episode 110: Aurélie Ouss — Probable Causation

Date: November 19, 2024

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