In the corridors of global finance, a quiet but consequential shift is underway. Wall Street is experimenting with a new phrase, “disaster debt”, shorthand for an emerging anxiety: that the developing world’s collective liabilities, now exceeding US$33 trillion, are approaching a breaking poin
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Dr Hani Okoroafor is a global informatics expert who advises corporate Boards in the public and private sectors. His multidisciplinary consulting practice operates in Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East.

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