External debt of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) touched a record US$8.8 trillion in 2023, while debt servicing costs for LMICs also reached an all-time high. That’s according to the 2024 edition of the International Debt Report, the World Bank’s premier annual publication on debt. For five decades the IDR, along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, […]
Working together. That was the main theme that resonated throughout a recent workshop to launch the 2024 Country Cohort of the Global Data Facility (GDF) program to Put Mobile Phone Data (MPD) to work for Policy. Between October 7-10, the inaugural Cohort consisting of 18 Country teams (over 130 representatives) that were awarded grants through the GDF-MPD support […]
