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Should Francophone Africa rethink its public debt model?
An economist's perspective on the limits of the current model and possible alternatives for Global South states.
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Global South Talks: African debt under the economists' microscope
Podcast episode with three experts on sovereign debt restructuring in Africa.
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Latin America's lithium boom: opportunity or resource curse?
Battery-metal wealth could fund development — or repeat extractive patterns of the past.
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South Asia's water treaties need a climate update
Cross-border river agreements written decades ago cannot handle today's droughts and glacial melt.
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Global South Watch Weekly: debt, climate, and elections
Our editors round up the debates shaping policy from Lagos to São Paulo this week.
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The Brief: why Gulf states are reshaping South-South trade
A 22-minute conversation on ports, petrodollars, and new trade corridors linking Africa and Asia.
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West Africa's coastal cities face a compound climate risk
Rising seas, rapid urbanization, and weak drainage systems are colliding along the Gulf of Guinea.