– Exogenous shocks of different types cost the Tunisian economy billions in foregone growth and deprived it of critical foreign currency receipts. Pushing the current account into deeper deficits, exogenous shocks made the country’s leadership increasingly beholden to foreign creditors…

With this international conference, we aim to open the discussions and debates on money, debt and dependency and to bring the study of African dependency into the conversation on global monetary relations that are too often pursued from a largely..

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in collaboration with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and the network “Politics of money” is organizing the International conference: “The quest for economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa: lessons to be learnt and ways forward” from 6 to 9 November in the Cité de la Culture, Tunis.

With this international conference, we aim to open the discussions and debates on money, debt and dependency and to bring the study of African dependency into the conversation on global monetary relations that are too often pursued from a largely Eurocentric perspective.