Video Transcript
Yvette Babb
Portfolio Manager
Emerging Markets Debt Team
We are attending the African Development Bank meetings and engaging with a number of policymakers from the continent. During our visit here, we engaged with, amongst others, the ministers of finance of Kenya as well as Ghana. Other discussions with the minister of finance of South Africa were in particular very interesting considering the circumstances that South Africa finds itself in. We also engaged with a number of other policymakers, including that of Botswana and Tanzania. We also engaged with the Angolan delegations. And all of this is to inform our views on their ability to raise external financing against what is proving to be a challenging backdrop for some of the high-yield names in sub-Saharan Africa.
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