Panel Event | “Business Unusual” | Washington DC | 12th Oct

Development in Africa has become increasingly precarious under the weight of external and internal shocks. For a time, debt and deficits managed to partly absorb those shocks, but in the new era of high global interest rates, such a strategy is not tenable anymore. Emerging and frontier countries are at risk of being excluded from capital markets in the short to medium term. What perspectives do debt markets hold for developing countries? And what can policy makers do to react to this new reality?

This conference, hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and co-organised by the Finance for Development Lab and Africa Business, will look for innovative solutions for the debt crisis.

Discussions will be moderated by Omar Ben Yedder, African Business, Editor-in-Chief.