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At the same time, restructuring mechanisms such as the G20 Common Framework are proving ineffective, as seen in Ghana, Zambia and Ethiopia. With the African Union calling for more concessional financing from multilateral banks, how can creditors and debtors work together to stem the tide of defaults?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paris Club and G20 Common Framework: What reforms are needed to make restructuring mechanisms fairer?<\/li>\n<li>Special Drawing Rights, capital increases, local currency loans, liquidity support: How can the IMF and multilateral banks contribute to more favourable financing?<\/li>\n<li>Pan-African rating agency, Big Three reforms: How to correct the African risk premium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[133],"class_list":["post-22748","sb_session","type-sb_session","status-publish","hentry","evenement-salon-133"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beyond restructuring: How to build an equitable architecture for African debt? - The African Financial Summit Platform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_session\/beyond-restructuring-how-to-build-an-equitable-architecture-for-african-debt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beyond restructuring: How to build an equitable architecture for African debt? - The African Financial Summit Platform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa faces the highest external public debt borrowing and servicing costs in the world, with debt service obligations of $163 billion this year. 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