
Africa must build own debt tools - AFRODAD chief says
Kizito CUDJOE
African countries should develop their own debt-management and development-financing institutions instead of relying on systems designed outside the continent, the head of the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) has said.
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