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By Ivaylo MARKOV, Managing Partner of Thales Capital
A recent actualization of the Chinese loans for Africa (CLA) database, managed by the Boston University Center for Global Development Policy, estimates, that between 2000-2022, 39 Chinese lenders provided a total of 1,243 loans worth $170.08 billion to 49 African governments and 7 regional institutions.
Between 2021 and 2022 alone, the CLA database records a total of 16 new loan commitments worth $2.22 billion from African government lenders to African government lenders, implying two consecutive years of African lending below $2 billion. The CLA database is an interactive data project tracking loan commitments by Chinese development finance institutions (DFIs), domestic banks, government...
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