About Us
The African Debt Database (ADD) is a collaborative project led by a team of researchers across three continents building the most extensive dataset on African sovereign borrowing.
Mark S. Manger
University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
David Mihalyi
World Bank & Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Ugo Panizza
Geneva Graduate Institute & CEPR
Niccolò Rescia
Global Sovereign Advisory & Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Christoph Trebesch
Kiel Institute for the World Economy & CEPR
Ka Lok Wong (Steve)
UN Economic Commission for Africa
We thank Cesar Calderon, Mellany Vasquez, Anne-Laure Kiechel and Mathilde Gassies for comments, and Sarah Afiane, Tracy Beyuo, Elifana Gokot, Szabolcs Molnar, and Emilio Ortelli for research support. Manger, Panizza, and Wong acknowledge financial support from the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). Rescia acknowledges financial support from the French government under the “France 2030” investment plan managed by the French National Research Agency (reference: ANR-17-EURE-0020) and from Excellence Initiative of Aix-Marseille University - A*MIDEX. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of their affiliations.