🌍 Today at #DebtCon8 we’re launching the African Debt Database (ADD). The 1st instrument-level dataset covering both domestic and external sovereign debt across the African continent.
With @markya.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social Niccolò Rescia, Christoph Trebesch, and Ka Lok Wong.
13.10.2025 14:09 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
DebtNerds drinks at the very cool Ground Control in Paris with @agelpern.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @theomaret.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social
27.06.2025 08:32 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Radical Debt Transparency Report
This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms, stronger oversight of unconventional debt, broader loan-level reporting, ...
World Bank report "Radical Debt Transparency" (reposting today since link changed overnight), led by Diego Rivetti,
& @davidmihalyi.bsky.social with contributions from Anirudh Bharadwaj, Roberto Lobarinhas, and Rowan David Rockafellow.
www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
20.06.2025 13:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Radical Debt Transparency Report
This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms, stronger oversight of unconventional debt, broader loan-level reporting, ...
Sovereign debt data is improving, but the devil is in the details.
In a new WB report, @diegorivetti.bsky.social , @davidmihalyi.bsky.social, Ainrudh Bharadwaj, Roberto Lobarinhas, and I look at how debt transparency has evolved since COVID.
Lots of interesting tidbits. A few of my thoughts:
20.06.2025 16:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Interested in sovereign debt transparency? The Sovereign Debt Forum is running this event on May 14, in conjunction with the IMF Legal Department. Details on registration for the virtual event are here:
@princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social
04.05.2025 18:15 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe @bencekd.bsky.social ?
09.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is great news. Congratulations to Laura Ilan and the IDB
19.02.2025 07:08 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
-cc @mkessler.bsky.social @tealemery.bsky.social @kevincareywb.bsky.social @theomaret.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social
18.02.2025 02:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Senegal 'hidden debt' audit report is out: "La Cour constate"... "un montant de 155 milliards de F CFA sans couverture budgétaire." "Le Ministère des Finances et du Budget précise que le montant"..."est imputé par erreur" www.aisccuf.org/actualites/s...
18.02.2025 02:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
HKS Working Paper
Why do China's sovereign debt restructurings take so long and deliver such weak relief?
A dream team of experts connects the dots between domestic political economy constraints & international outcomes.
www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
#EconSky #FinSky #China
28.01.2025 02:37 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Sovereign Debt Forum and Massive Data Institute announces the launch of #PublicDebtIsPublic
Our sovereign debt transparency moonshot! Keeping the faith. #publicdebtispublic
@upanizza.bsky.social @theomaret.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social
www.law.georgetown.edu/iiel/initiat...
28.01.2025 21:24 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
📣 📚 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.
13.01.2025 14:06 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
What is sovereign debt, and why does it matter?
Sovereign debt crises have become more complicated, as countries tapped into new borrowing options in recent years.
At @goodauth.bsky.social, @laynamosley.bsky.social and @peterrosendorff.bsky.social's new Good to Know post gives some nuts and bolts of sovereign debt. A useful resource for teaching (and for convincing others that the politics of debt are important!)
goodauthority.org/news/good-to...
10.01.2025 18:45 — 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Brick - Do More of What Matters
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Best purchase in 2024? This little gadget ('Brick') that blocks all distractions on my phone regularly to get quality time & focus, including offline Saturdays. getbrick.app
09.01.2025 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My 2024 in book reviews. Less books & more negative than earlier years but hopeful for a lot better in 2025. www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
01.01.2025 18:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A new episode of @planetmoney.bsky.social Indicator features Sebastian Horn discussing his work on hidden sovereign debt. Definitely worth a listen!
www.npr.org › 2024/12/10 › mozambique-tuna-...
One finding is that bilateral official debt is most likely to be underreported. [1/2]
10.12.2024 13:18 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The Tuna Bonds Scandal and the fishy business of hidden debt
Podcast Episode · The Indicator from Planet Money · 12/10/2024 · 9m
Nobody does better at explaining my wonky interests to my non-economist friends than @planetmoney.bsky.social. So thrilled they covered our research on Hidden Debt in their latest episode of the Indicator Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
10.12.2024 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ivory Coast turns to World Bank to replace costly debt
Swap deal to buy back bonds issued in January comes as African borrowers struggle under expensive debt burdens
Talking with the FT about the Ivory Coast / World Bank swap deal. Couple of good things on this one. Managed to drive down intermediation costs by side stepping SPV structure and allowed the country to allocate proceeds from transaction. on.ft.com/3BhkuzW
06.12.2024 16:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
World Bank / debt swaps: "But for true, lasting impact, debt for development swaps must focus on three key criteria: efficient use of resources to maximize impact, robust transparency and governance to ensure savings are properly managed, ..."
05.12.2024 21:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
New IDS 2024 debt data is out in all its granularity. See changes in creditor composition in the debt stock of low and middle income countries. www.worldbank.org/en/programs/...
04.12.2024 15:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cool, I’ll dm you
01.12.2024 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why start with US, when could alter energy pathways more radically elsewhere? See global estimates by @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social et al. greatcarbonarbitrage.com
01.12.2024 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’ll miss you here!
29.11.2024 20:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Something beyond the scope of the paper but still important is that the tools for getting critical IMF financial data haven't been updated since the Netscape era.
The data is de jure public but mostly unusable for systematic analysis.
27.11.2024 23:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Why is Brad Setser not here and what can we do about it
28.11.2024 01:45 — 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Brilliant event study design.
27.11.2024 20:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"The available data do not show any signs that the information currently deleted is market sensitive."
27.11.2024 20:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some promising improvements, but then also "Continue the MAC SRDSF’s special deletions, on a temporary basis, pending further experience with the application of the SRDSF framework."
27.11.2024 20:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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