Share Radio : Sharing ideas about money
Loading the player...


Juliette Foster

The Weeks Update: Professor John Weeks & Tim Jones talk Ghana & Mozambique's huge debts

Juliette Foster
Original Broadcast:

The Weeks Update on

The Weeks Update: Professor John Weeks & Tim Jones talk Ghana & Mozambique's huge debts
The Greek financial crisis may have gone quiet for the time being but an economic drama on an equally large scale is being played out in Ghana and Mozambique. Both countries are languishing under the weight of multi - billion Dollar debt mountains, currency depreciations and the drying up of foreign investment. As major creditors struggle to find a way of making both economies sustainable, its ordinary people who are left to cope with the fallout of rising food and living costs...a consequence of high borrowing and economic mismanagement. Tim Jones of the Jubilee Debt Campaign joins Juliette Foster in the studio along with Professor John Weeks, Share Radio's regular economics commentator.