{"id":2024,"date":"2021-06-03T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2021-11-24T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T12:20:30","slug":"lionel-zinsou-on-france24-how-to-finance-recovery-while-avoiding-the-debt-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/lionel-zinsou-on-france24-how-to-finance-recovery-while-avoiding-the-debt-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Zinsou on France24: How to finance recovery while avoiding the debt trap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x-content-band-1\" class=\"x-content-band vc first-row show-mobile\" style=\"background-color: transparent; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; position:fixed;z-index:999998;top:0;right:0; width: 100%;display:none;\"><div class=\"x-container wpb_row\"><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-1\" style=\"text-align:center;\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"sb-close-modal sb-close-news\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-content-band-2\" class=\"x-content-band vc first-row hide-mobile\" style=\"background-color: transparent; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; position:fixed;z-index:999999;top:0;right:0;\"><div class=\"x-container wpb_row\"><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-6\" style=\"\" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 1px 0 0 0;\"><\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-2-3\" style=\"\" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 1px 0 0 0;\"><\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-6\" style=\"\" >\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"team-close-btn sb-close-modal sb-close-news\">\n<li>close<\/li>\n<li>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"x-img x-img-none right\" style=\"width:29px;height:29px;margin: 20px !important;\/* display: inline-block; *\/\" src=\"http:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/close-1.png\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-content-band-3\" class=\"x-content-band vc\" style=\"background-color: transparent; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\"><div class=\"x-container wpb_row\"><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-6\" style=\"\" ><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-2-3\" style=\"\" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 6.25em 0 0 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element sb-post-categorie\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\tInsights, News\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element sb-post-title\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3>Lionel Zinsou on France24: How to finance recovery while avoiding the debt trap?<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element sb-post-date\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h5>juin 3, 2021<\/h5>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 45px 0 0 0;\"><p><span lang=\"en-US\">Lionel Zinsou, Managing Partner of Southbridge, participated in a debate entitled New Deal for Africa: how to finance recovery while avoiding debt trap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">During the debate, speakers acknowledged that rather than debt the focus\u00a0<\/span>should be put on financing to speed up socioeconomic recovery post-pandemic. Facing new challenges brought on by the impact of Covid-19, african economies remain underfinanced, with Lionel linking this phenomenon in parts to the overestimation of the risk of default by ratings agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge to lower risk premiums and to enable african countries to borrow at lower costs reside in removing the stigma associated with african countries&#8217; risk when countries in similar economic standing are not judged as harshly.<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by France 24&#8217;s Francois Picard, other participants in the debate included Ken OFFORI-ATTA, Ghanaian Finance Minister, Marin FERRY, Assistant Professor, Univ. Gustave Eiffel and Louis BEDOUCHA, Senior Advisor, PwC.<\/p>\n<p>The debate is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/the-debate\/20210518-new-deal-for-africa-how-to-finance-recovery-while-avoiding-debt-trap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #112800;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #11283d; text-decoration: underline;\">here.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 100px 0 0 0;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #11283d;\">Share this article<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-6\" style=\"\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close \u00a0 Insights, News Lionel Zinsou on France24: How to finance recovery while avoiding the debt trap? juin 3, 2021 Lionel Zinsou, Managing Partner of Southbridge, participated in a debate entitled New Deal for Africa: how to finance recovery while avoiding debt trap.\u00a0 During the debate, speakers acknowledged that rather than debt the focus\u00a0should be put on financing to speed &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/lionel-zinsou-on-france24-how-to-finance-recovery-while-avoiding-the-debt-trap\/\" class=\"more-link\">En savoir plus<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}