Angola: One year into the Lourenço presidency. What's next?

The Policy Center for the New South, under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, has hosted the 11th edition of its annual Atlantic Dialogues International Conference in Marrakech from December 14 to 16, 2022. Over 350 guests from 60 different countries have taken part in this first in-person edition in three years, under the theme “Cooperation in a Mutating World: Opportunities of the Wider Atlantic”. The most recent edition in this format, held in 2019 address “The S ...

Rares sont les sociétés africaines qui ont gardé, enseigné et transmis une écriture aux générations futures. Jusqu’à nos jours, seules deux graphies ont survécu à l’oubli, la négligence et aux tourmentes de l’histoire : l’écriture amharique en Éthiopie et le tifinagh chez les Touaregs. La traite esclavagiste et les colonisations ont bloqué, d’une manière brutale, l’évolution naturelle de la culture et de la civilisation africaines. Le manque de traces scripturales de ...

This Chapter was originally published on Cape Town Chronicles   The history of debt in Africa is a long and painful one. It began in the 1980s, when the public finances of most developing countries deteriorated following two episodes of oil shocks, leading to a "lost decade" of low growth, increased poverty, and political instability. The recovery from the debt crisis only became possible following initiatives in favour of heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and the Multilatera ...

This Working Paper was originally published on erf.org.eg Like many developing countries, Morocco faced a significant increase in public debt following the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, Central government debt reached 69.6% of GDP, up from 60.3% in 2019, highlighting the need for a thorough analysis of debt sustainability. This paper examines the main trends in the Moroccan economy over the past two decades, including growth performance, monetary policy and financial conditions and e ...