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AfDB refutes World Banks debt report on Africa

Published by The Nation on Mon, 17 Feb 2020


By Colins NwezeThe World Bank President David Malpass has said some Multilateral Development Banks, including the African Development Bank (AfDB), have a tendency to lend too quickly and in the process, add to the continents debt problems.But the AfDB in a statement, said the claim was inaccurate and not fact based. It impugns the integrity of the African Development Bank, undermines our governance systems, and incorrectly insinuates that we operate under different standards from the World Bank. The very notion goes against the spirit of multilateralism and our collaborative work. ( For the record, the AfDB maintains a very high global standard of transparency. In the 2018 Publish What You Fund report, our institution was ranked the fourth most transparent institution, globally. The AfDB provides a strong governance program for our regional member countries that focuses on public financial management, better and transparent natural resources management, sustainable and transparent debt management and domestic resource mobilisation. We have spearheaded the issuance of local currency financing to several countries to mitigate the impacts of foreign exchange risks, while supporting countries to improve tax collection and tax administration, and leveraging pension funds and sovereign wealth funds to direct more monies into financing development programs, especially infrastructure. The African Development Banks Africa Legal Support Facility (ALSF) supports countries to negotiate terms of their royalties and taxes to international companies, and terms of their non-concessional loans to some bilateral financiers. We have been highly successful in doing so. The World Bank, with a more substantial balance sheet, has significantly larger operations in Africa than the AfDB. The World Banks operations approved for Africa in the 2018 fiscal year amounted to $20.2 billion, compared to $10.1 billion by the AfDB.Read Also:Oyo, 16 other states get World Banks N220 billion loanWith regard to Nigeria and South Africa, the World Banks outstanding loans for the 2018 fiscal year to both countries stood at $8.3 billion and $2.4 billion, respectively. In contrast, the outstanding amounts for the AfDB Group to Nigeria and South Africa were $2.1 billion and $2 billion, respectively, for the same fiscal year. With reference to the countries described as heavily indebted, our bank recognises and closely monitors the upward debt trend. However, there is no systemic risk of debt distress. According to the 2020 African Economic Outlook, at the end of June 2019, total public debt in Nigeria amounted to $83.9 billion, 14.6 per cent higher than the year before. That debt represented 20.1 per cent of GDP, up from 17.5 per cent in 2018.
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