Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development. China, and most countries of Western Europe. In the coming years, expect the AfDB to pioneer approaches to inclusive growth.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. This product of the debt limit battle of 2011 set up a bipartisan "super committee" of legislators charged with coming up with a deal to the reduce the deficit, with $100 billion or so in Gramm-Rudman-style sequestration to follow in 2013 if the super committee failed (which it of course did).

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

nation's credit rating has the same tone. Most of the country believes our rating for effective policymaking is somewhere between a D and an F. But that is not the point of a credit ratings agency. The current reaction to Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the U.S. We are embroiled in politics, not economics.

Credit Rating 14

Credit Rating Politics Bond GDP 14