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A Call for the African Union to Break the Global South Debt Impasse

by Eric Olander
Gyude Moore is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C.

Gyude Moore, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, is among a small group of Washington, D.C.-based analysts trying to devise practical solutions for how developing countries can unblock the current impasse preventing debt-distressed countries from restructuring their loans.

The following transcript was adapted and lightly edited for clarity from a seven-part Twitter thread posted by Moore.

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