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Ukraine / GDP warrants: "Ukraine created the instruments - fixed income securities indexed to economic growth - to sweeten its 2015 debt restructuring. But their complex structure meant they had not been part of last year's broader $20 bn restructuring." uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-d…

Fact-sheet with some details on timeline and parameters of the OCC treatment in Zambia clubdeparis.org/en/traitements…

New World Bank report "Radical Debt Transparency" being discussed tomorrow in Tokyo (11am), tonight US East Coast (10pm) with registration form here (tip: put the same information in both boxes for each question). worldbank.org/en/events/2025…

World Bank report "Radical Debt Transparency" (reposting today since link changed overnight), led by Diego Rivetti & David Mihalyi (bsky) with contributions from Anirudh Bharadwaj Rowan Rockafellow 罗安 Roberto Lobarinhas worldbank.org/en/publication…

Sovereign debt data is improving, but the devil is in the details. In a new World Bank report,Diego Rivetti, David Mihalyi, Anirudh Bharadwaj, Roberto Lobarinhas, and I look at how debt transparency has evolved since COVID. A few of my thoughts: worldbank.org/en/publication…

“Cutting by 50% the debt of the low-middle income African nations in 10 years”! Why bothering with the G20 Common Framework anymore?

📢New deep-dive paper on China’s BRI lending (Georgetown/AidData/Kiel). We study "How China Collateralizes" its overseas loans — not with ports/infrastructure, but with cash in Chinese bank accounts. The techniques and volumes are striking.🧵Paper here: ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Date…

📍The second major outcome of the Sevilla Conference: a Global Hub for Debt Swaps, launched with the World Bank to strengthen development finance. The Hub will scale up debt swaps for high-impact projects, connecting key actors and delivering customized technical support.

The Paris Club’s annual update is very commendable, but I’ve always found it puzzling as its figures often diverge from those in DSAs or country-reports. This only reinforces the case for an automated creditor/borrower reconciliation platform: worldbank.org/en/publication…