By Hannatu Sadiq
World Bank has listed Nigeria and nine others as countries with high debt risk exposure.
The bank stated this in the financial statement for International Development Association (IDA) on Monday.
It read, “IDA faces two types of credit risk: country credit risk and counterparty credit risk.
“Country credit risk is the risk of loss due to a country not meeting its contractual obligations; and counter party credit risk is the risk of loss attributable to a counter party not honoring its contractual obligations.
“IDA is exposed to commercial as well as noncommercial counter party credit risk.”
It further stated that, “As of June 30, 2021, the 10 countries with the highest exposures accounted for 66 per cent of IDA’s total exposure.”
Other countries listed are Ethiopia with $11.2bn IDA debt stock, Kenya with $10.2bn IDA debt stock, Tanzania with $8.3bn IDA debt stock, Ghana with $5.6bn IDA debt stock, and Uganda with $4.4bn IDA debt stock.
“The World Bank Group support to client countries surged to $157bn over the last 15 months to address increased poverty, inequality, and the impacts of COVID-19” the statement quoted the Bank’s Group President, David Malpass as saying.
