Publications

Sailing into Stormy Waters: The Return o...
24 July 2026 Sailing into Stormy Waters: The Return of Expensive Eurobond Debt

FDL regularly hosts independent analyses and opinions on this space, we are grateful to host this external contribution by Alex Dryden and Uli Volz. Alex Dryden is a PhD student in economics and a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre...

Relief for Ethiopian debt relief?...
03 July 2026 Relief for Ethiopian debt relief?

With many thanks to Jean Courtial for his help in modelling the value of complex instruments, and Ishac Diwan, Stephen Paduano, Adil Ababou, Ugo Panizza and Anahi Wiedenbrug for their comments Last week, Ethiopia and its bondholders came to an...

Sovereign Debt Sustainability with Domes...
18 June 2026 Sovereign Debt Sustainability with Domestic Debt Markets

As governments rely more on domestic debt, this paper examines the implications for sovereign debt sustainability and asks whether the IMF's LIC Debt Sustainability Framework (LIC DSF) remains suited to this changing reality. The paper shows that domestic and external...