Research & Insights

The Preferred Creditor Status glut – The search for loss absorption in Africa
Lazard's Policy Paper analyses the delicate trade-off between the need to provide debt relief to over-indebted countries and the need to protect as much as possible international public lenders with government shareholders and a policy mandate.

Climate And Sovereign Debt Vulnerabilities: Some Practical Solutions
High public debt levels generally make climate adaptation and mitigation financing via debt unadvisable.