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Who Lends to Africa and How? Introducing the Africa Debt Database

Africa’s sovereign debt markets are not well understood, partly due to a lack of data. This paper introduces the Africa Debt Database (ADD), the most granular and comprehensive dataset on external borrowing by African governments thus far.

date:  01/02/2023

Keywords: financing for development, Africa, lending, sovereign debt 

Publisher: Kiel Institute for World Economy - Kiel Working Papers no. 2217
Publication date: Dec 2022
Language: EN

Read the publication in EN    Africa Debt Database