{"id":139813,"date":"2024-01-16T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/16\/ghana-zambia-to-emerge-from-foreign-currency-debt-default-in-2024-fitch\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:23:29","slug":"ghana-zambia-to-emerge-from-foreign-currency-debt-default-in-2024-fitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/16\/ghana-zambia-to-emerge-from-foreign-currency-debt-default-in-2024-fitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana, Zambia to emerge from foreign-currency debt default in 2024 \u2013 Fitch \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rating agency, Fitch, expects Ghana and Zambia to emerge from default on their foreign-currency debt in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In its Regional Sub-Saharan African Sovereigns Outlook 2024, it stated that the two countries will come good in terms of restructuring their debts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe forecast gradual fiscal consolidation due to financing constraints and fiscal reform efforts, which, in many cases, are linked to IMF [International Monetary Fund] programmes. This consolidation will help government debt\/GDP to broadly stabilise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect Ghana and Zambia to emerge from default on their foreign-currency debt in 2024, although, in both cases, the debt restructuring process under the Common Framework is vulnerable to further delays\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The UK-based firm continued that the macro outlook for sub-Saharan Africa in 2024 including Ghana points to stable median real Gross Domestic Product growth and lower average inflation, which nonetheless remains high across a number of sovereigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe macro outlook for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2024 points to stable median real GDP growth and lower average inflation, which nonetheless remains high across a number of sovereigns\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fitch, however, expects financing challenges to persist as most Sub-Saharan African sovereigns do not have affordable access to international capital markets without credit enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that multilateral funding will remain a key support more broadly across the region. However, risks remain tilted to the downside.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a>Joy Business<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating agency, Fitch, expects Ghana and Zambia to emerge from default on their foreign-currency debt in 2024. 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