Ep 179 - Ethiopia’s Value Recovery Instruments

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Aug 3, 202600:35:41Education

Ethiopia’s Value Recovery Instruments Value recovery instruments are a great idea in theory and a disaster in practice. The idea is to let investors share in the upside of a country’s recovery. But governments rarely wan...

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