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Partenaires émergents : quels enjeux pour la soutenabilité de la dette africaine ?

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  • Dieudonné Bleossi Dahoun

    (Ministère des Finances, Bénin)

  • Marc Raffinot

    (LEDa, UMR DIAL-Paris-Dauphine)

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(english) After debt cancellations, in particular MDRI (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) debt ratios in Low Income Country dropped to historic lows. They are now getting into debt again, because of Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI) new loans, of emerging countries’ (namely China) loans, and sometimes because they are able to borrow from international financial markets. BWI try to slow this new debt cycle by putting limits on the non-concessional borrowing of the country that have an agreement with IMF and by better assessing the debt sustainability (IDA-IMF Debt sustainability framework). The lack of transparent data is a major problem. Nevertheless, some convergence between China and traditional donors may be seen, namely in the field of debt relief. This is consistent with the rise of emerging countries in international financial institutions. _________________________________ (français) Après les réductions de dette, notamment l’initiative d’allégement de la dette multilatérale de 2005 (IADM), beaucoup de pays à faible revenu se sont retrouvés avec des niveaux d’endettement extrêmement bas. Leur réendettement progresse à des rythmes variables sous l’effet de nouveaux prêts des Institutions de Bretton Woods (IBW), mais aussi des pays émergents (notamment de la Chine), et parfois même des marchés financiers internationaux. Les IBW cherchent à freiner le réendettement de ces pays en conditionnant leurs prêts à la limitation des financements non concessionnels et en posant des limites aux ratios d’endettement (Cadre de Viabilité de la Dette). Il est difficile de bien analyser le rôle spécifique des pays émergents, car les données ne sont difficiles à réunir précisément. Il apparaît cependant une certaine convergence des positions chinoises envers les pays africains avec celles des autres bailleurs de fonds, visible notamment en matière de réduction de dette. Ceci est cohérent avec la montée en puissance des pays émergents dans les institutions financières internationales.

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  • Dieudonné Bleossi Dahoun & Marc Raffinot, 2012. "Partenaires émergents : quels enjeux pour la soutenabilité de la dette africaine ?," Working Papers DT/2012/14, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
  • Handle: RePEc:dia:wpaper:dt201214
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    Keywords

    Pays émergents; Afrique; Financement du développement; Réductions de dette; Réendettement; Chine; Emerging countries; Africa; Development Financing; Debt relief; Debt cycle; China.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
    • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

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