Jana Harvey on the debt outlook for EM sovereigns in 2023

Jana Velebova-Harvey, senior portfolio manager in the emerging markets team at BlueBay Asset Management, speaks to Burhan Khadbai, head of content at OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute, on the issuance conditions for emerging market sovereigns in 2022 and the outlook for the year ahead. Velebova-Harvey talks about the challenges EM sovereigns have faced in accessing the primary market, innovative environmental, social and governance-themed debt restructuring such as debt for nature swaps and carbon-backed bonds, and Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery.