The doctrine of Odious Debt in the context of Africa today

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The doctrine of Odious Debt in the context of Africa today

9 November 2022 by Eric Toussaint

Éric Toussaint speaking during the 2^nd Conference on African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty

In this slide show presented in Dakar on 26 October 2022 at the 2^nd Conference on Economic and Monetary Sovereignty of Africa, Eric Toussaint begins by recalling the definition of odious debt according to the doctrine developed by Alexander Sack, then he lists a series of examples of unilateral repudiations of public debts by sovereign states. From slide 6 onwards, he addresses the current African context by asserting the need to fight for the cancellation of the odious debt claimed from African countries and he concludes with the complementary measures to be taken following a debt suspension/repudiation.

Author

Eric Toussaint

is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.