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Blog Post
December 12, 2022
Debt and climate change are defining challenges for many countries in Africa. Governments across the continent are seeing their debt burdens mount—some to unsustainable levels—as they race to mobilize resources to adapt and respond to the increasingly severe climate crisis.
Blog Post
October 31, 2022
The US has played a lead role in responding to recent and evolving threats around the world—in large part—thanks to supplemental funding provided by Congress. Lawmakers have demonstrated a willingness to loosen the proverbial purse strings outside the typical, annual appropriations cycle in response...
BRIEFS
October 11, 2022
We are living in a time when many countries face heightened debt vulnerabilities. There is no international bankruptcy mechanism for countries that default on their external obligations. The objective of the international financial architecture—historically overseen by the IMF and its shareholders— ...
Blog Post
August 30, 2022
The trend toward space-enabled affordability moved a notch forward last week when T-Mobile and SpaceX announced their alliance to provide “satellite to cell phone” service (in the US), joining the ranks of other New Space and telecommunications alliances, such as Lynk and Unitel (Mongolia) and Telik...
Blog Post
August 04, 2022
A more useful starting point in answering questions such as this is to reframe space as infrastructure, akin to roads or power. Road systems and electricity grids, for example, don’t directly feed people, but they do contribute greatly to the ability to grow, move, store, and sell agricultural goods...
BRIEFS
August 01, 2022
Many African countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, continue to grapple with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic while simultaneously confronting the challenges posed by slowing global growth, private capital outflows, debt distress, and the impacts of climate change. An estimate...
Blog Post
July 15, 2022
The benefits of space technology are substantial, most simply demonstrated by how it contributes to every UN Sustainable Development Goal. Most countries’ economies and industries are already dependent on satellites to some degree, for position, navigation, and timing data (transportation, power gri...
Blog Post
July 05, 2022
DFC has been the subject of a growing list of proposals from lawmakers that envision the agency tackling a wider range of challenges than initially envisioned. The agency may find ways to leverage this heightened interest. However, delivering on the bipartisan, foundational vision for DFC amid evolv...