According to the doctrine, for a debt to be odious it must meet two conditions: 1) It must have been contracted against the interests of the Nation, or against the interests of the People, or against ...

The numbers are startling. From 1970 to 2008, the combined foreign debt of African countries rose from less than $50 billion to more than $200 billion in constant dollars. During the same time, ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. “He that dies pays all debts,” says Stephano in The Tempest. Evidently he did not have sovereign debt in ...

The doctrine of ‘odious debt’ has often been invoked to call for the cancellation of debts in very specific and complex political contexts. In this stimulating essay, Pierre Pénet endeavours to ...