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Debt Relief Helps But It’s Still Not Enough to Offset the Economic Impact of COVID-19

by Eric Olander

The Beijing-based consultancy Development Reimagined (DR) released a new data set this week that tracks COVID-19 developments in African countries and their economic impact. Their reports and infographics provide a useful companion to the latest news from the Paris Club that Angola will be granted a debt repayment holiday.

DR’s latest set of infographics breaks down how Angola and Africa’s other largest borrowers would benefit from an extension of the DSSI to other countries along with similar relief deals from China.

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