Africa Debt Database

20 years of borrowing by African governments broken down loan-by-loan.

The paper and dataset (joint work with Christoph Trebesch) are available on the Kiel Institute’s website.


WEO forecast tracker – A data visualization tool enabling to review past IMF World Economic Outlook forecasts and compare them with actual outcome

Sub-Saharan Africa_GGXWDG_NGDP(1).gif

Access the tool here. This blog presents some insight from resource rich countries. Work with Tommy Morrison.


Millions? Billions? Trillions? - A cheat sheet to help with order-of-magnitude estimates on the moneys across various topics

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Download the Anki flashcard deck here. Access the googlesheet here with links to sources here.


Underground wealth of nations - Animated global map of known resource wealth per square kilometer over time

subsoil assets over time.gif

Download R code, source data and still images here. Work with Janos Biro.


Economic modeling

Mongolia macro-fiscal model - Excel-based semi-structural macro-fiscal model to assess sustainability of Mongolia’s public finances. Read blog version. Work with with Daniel Baksa, Balazs Romhanyi.

Jubilee model – Discounted cash flow model to forecast Ghana’s oil revenues from the Jubilee oil field and its implications for the 2015 budget. Read blog version. Work with with Samuel Bekoe.

              


Other

ResourceProjects.org – A data repository of extractive company payment information. I led the development of an earlier beta website & dataset

Mining Investment and Governance Review – A World Bank led country assessment framework. I led the development of the methodology & questionnaire.