The African Debt Database (ADD) is the first comprehensive database of African debt and is building the most extensive dataset on African sovereign borrowing. It is “a new, comprehensive dataset that traces both domestic and external debt instruments at a granular level” whose main innovation is a “detailed mapping of Africa’s domestic debt markets, drawing on rich, new data extracted from government auction reports and bond prospectuses.” Read the Report. 

The ADD project was created by Mark S. Manger, Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy;  David Mihalyi, Senior Economist at the World Bank and a PhD candidate at the University of Kiel’s Economics Department; Ugo Panizza, Head of the International Economics Department at the Geneva Graduate Institute and Director of the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies; Niccolò Rescia, Global Sovereign Advisory & PhD candidate at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics; Christoph Trebesch, Director of the Research Center on International Finance at the Kiel Institute and Professor of Macroeconomics at Kiel University; and Ka Lok (Steve) Wong Associate Economic Affairs Officer UN Economic Commission for Africa and PhD researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute. 

The project was made possible by a Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) Grant obtained by Professor Panizza.
 

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