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The real reason Africa is up to its neck in debt - It’s not the IMF or even China but private banks that threaten developing country’s finances, lending at exorbitant rates telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Waking up to terrible news from across the Atlantic, Ethiopia's drive toward structural transformation inspires me. ETH is now a food exporter, extreme poverty decreased by 30% in 20yrs. Here at Adwa in 1896 Melenik II won against Italian troops saving his country from colnialism

Trump reelected, German government coalition collapses.

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Greece now borrows at a lower interest rate than France. 5-year government yields are now lower for Greece (i.e. negative yield spread).

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While benefiting climate efforts, ESG regulations can restrict market access. But they are also an opportunity to improve conditions at the beginning of the supply chain. Check out our article on ⁦⁦UNIDO⁩ Industrial Analytics Platform here ⬇️ iap.unido.org/articles/why-w…

A most important argument. Less focus on compliance in supply chains and much more on building firm capability in lower income countries. Hannah Grupp UNIDO iap.unido.org/articles/why-w…?

Bloomberg: "A record 54 countries are spending more than 10% of their revenues on interest payments, according to the United Nations. Some, including Pakistan and Nigeria, are using more than 30% of revenue just to pay coupons." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

In just 15 years, Rwanda has increased its electricity access to 75% from 6% in 2009. The country has connected 100% of health centers and administrative facilities, and 84% of schools – World Bank 1/2 worldbank.org/en/news/featur…

Europeans watching DeepSeek overtake ChatGPT on Apple App Store

Germany now has the right fiscal policy to stoke domestic demand and offset lost export markets to the second China shock - as Brad Setser and I argued. But to stop China deindustrialising Germany this will need to be flanked by industrial and trade policy. 1/

One can only wonder what happened behind the scenes to make this meeting happen. #FocusOnAfrica

I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.

„#Europa selbst hat zusammen mehr Einwohner als die USA. Wir müssen jetzt mit mehr Elan als früher auf andere Regionen der Welt zugehen und Angebote zur Zusammenarbeit und für neue Freihandelsabkommen machen. Das ist jetzt die Stunde der Europäischen Union.“ (tm)

Every year, millions of young Africans enter the workforce. But there are not enough good jobs to match their ambition. Our latest #AfricasPulse report outlines what governments can do today — to build the #Africa people are striving for.➡️ wrld.bg/CtLE50VLEYB

Europeans aren't allowed to complain about America until they establish their own independent deterrence against a Russia that's a third of their population and a tenth of their GDP. When they do that, I will accept all their America-bashing. Until then, stuff it.

Man spielt nicht mit Demokratie.