Unless it's an inflation linked/inflation-indexed bond, not sure if any African governments are issuing this. 

If you price it to accomodate spikes in inflation, the risk is that the credit becomes too expensive for the government to afford e.g. if estimates have it that inflation will peak at 25% for a moderate gain of 4% the interest rate will be pegged at 29%. 

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com> wrote:
Depends on how you price the bond.

On 1 November 2011 16:37, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, internal bonds (within the country) would also work if we can reign in inflation... Problem right now is that if you issue a bond at the current rate of inflation in 3 months the bond holder will be losing money... 

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:
Hey Dennis,
 
Possibly a case-study/analysis would be helpful in determining what
has worked or hasn't in this instance. Then we can learn our lessons
from others and move forward.
 
Harry


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Some country called Libya  once tried investing in other African countries .....

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