Jorge Familiar

1 month ago | blogs.worldbank.org | Ousmane Diagana |Jorge Familiar |Junaid Ahmad |Pablo Saavedra

As liquidity pressures mount for some countries, there’s renewed interest in debt-for-development, when a country exchanges its expensive debt for cheaper debt and then redirects the savings into development spending. Find out about a debt-for-development swap operation in Côte d’Ivoire, enabled by the World Bank Group, that’s taking a new approach.