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Zambia: A Financial History — From the Copperbelt to the Debt Default and the IMF Restructuring
This article explores Zambia's financial history, tracing its path from British colonial extraction on the Copperbelt through Kenneth Kaunda's socialist nationalization, free-market privatization, and the debt-fueled infrastructure boom. It details the 2020 sovereign debt default and the long IMF-backed restructuring process under the G20 Common Framework.
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Sri Lanka: A Financial History — From the Spice Trade to the Tea Economy and the 2022 Debt Default
This article explores Sri Lanka's complex economic history, tracing its evolution from a vital pre-colonial spice trading hub to a British colonial plantation economy. It details how post-independence welfare policies, colonial trade structures, decades of civil war, and recent fiscal policy choices ultimately led to the historic sovereign debt default of 2022.
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