The Corona Crisis

... While loans by private investors from around the world still make up more than half of Africa’s external public debt, Germany’s...

... Their work fed into a broader set of estimates by Sebastian Horn and Christoph Trebesch of the Kiel Institute for the World...

... We talk to Professor Christoph Trebesch from the Kiel Institute, who explains how China's opaque lending practices make it...

... The German economy will likely contract by 7.1% this year before expanding by 7.2% next year as the coronavirus pandemic takes...

...The Kiel Institute, a German research group, pegs China’s lending to the developing world at $520 billion or more, with the vast...

... IfW researcher Christoph Trebesch comments on the "hold-out" strategy of some investors in the souvereign debt market ... ...