news: This [last] week in Africa, by J. Paller
Africanist Perspective, by Ken Opalo
The sifter: Maya Misikir, from Ethiopia
- coercive policy advice
- prioritise debt service repayments
- questions on sovereignty
- loan agreements included this 'consultation clause’
- cult of austerity
- major obstacle to spending on health, education and climate action.
- public service shrinking
- freeze public sector wage bills (government employees’ salaries
- no new recruitments will be made,
- salaries mostly remain the same
- cuts to development projects
- do not seeking a systemic solution to debt
- levying regressive taxes like VAT, including
- transportation services as well as the supply of
- potable water and
- electricity
- Privatization of public services
- water
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