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Ghana struggling with debt, oil price winners and losers

The sharp rise in Ghana’s sovereign dollar bond yields this month suggests that investors are coming around to our view about the country’s worrying debt trajectory. Meanwhile, the rebound in oil prices will, as usual, split Sub-Saharan African economies into winners and losers. But the region’s oil producers will probably not be able to reap the full benefits from higher prices.

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