Charles Abugre

Nov 27, 2024 | businessdailyafrica.com | Charles Abugre |C.P. Chandrasekhar

In multiple ways multilateralism, or the coming together of the international community to further global good, is under challenge today. ‘Conflicts’, not least among them the genocide in Gaza, are an obvious challenge. But there is in the economic sphere, a silent subversion of multilateralism underway that also needs to be stalled and reversed.

Nov 18, 2024 | businessdailyafrica.com | Ndongo Samba Sylla |Charles Abugre

This year is a symbolic in many regards for the advocates of global economic reforms. It marks the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods system and the 50th anniversary of the New International Economic Order agenda of the United Nations. Equally important is the G20 Summit on November 18-19 hosted by Brazil. After having secured the position of permanent member last year, the African Union will be representing the continent alongside South Africa.

Oct 4, 2024 | dhakacourier.com.bd | C.P. Chandrasekhar |Martin Guzman |Jayati Ghosh |Charles Abugre

Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, must reject his predecessor’s recent debt-restructuring deal with bondholders. That agreement would inflict unnecessary pain on Sri Lanka’s population and set a dangerous precedent, undermining other developing economies’ ability to restructure their foreign debts.

Oct 2, 2024 | theasset.com | C.P. Chandrasekhar |Martin Guzman |Jayati Ghosh |Charles Abugre

Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s president, recently lost his re-election bid after voters overwhelmingly rejected the debt restructuring deals he negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other creditors. Instead, Sri Lankans elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the left-wing National People’s Power (NPP) alliance and a vocal critic of IMF-imposed austerity measures, who has vowed to renegotiate the country’s agreement with the fund.