Some developing country governments spend years making the reforms that international financial institutions want—only to find that their efforts are not rewarded. They may make budgets more ...

Credit ratings assess a borrower's ability to repay debts. Various companies issue them, although the opinions of Fitch Ratings, Moody's Investors Service, and S&P Global Ratings generally hold the ...

Rating agency DataPro Limited has outlined the key drivers behind sovereign credit ratings, stressing that the process goes far beyond the familiar letter grades used to rank countries’ ...

Lindsay VanSomeren is a personal finance writer based out of Kirkland, Washington. Her work has appeared on Business Insider, Credit Karma, LendingTree, and more. Jordan Tarver has spent seven years ...

The credit ratings of countries that are significant oil importers face a risk of credit-rating downgrades due to energy supply constraints and high prices, AXA Investment Managers' Chris Iggo said in ...

Africa’s clean energy funding would work much better if projects could borrow on fairer terms, and have longer to pay back ...

Despite Friday's U.S. credit-rating downgrade, fiscal concerns are unlikely to drive markets for very long. Yes, investors are more worried about the federal government’s borrowing than usual. The ...

Standard & Poor’s, one of three American credit rating agencies active in rating government bonds, just upgraded Kenya’s long-term government bond rating, from B- to B on August 22, 2025, after ...

Key actors are beginning to ask what the system of sovereign debt as a whole needs to provide. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images Some developing country governments spend years making ...