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Credit rating agencies often elicit criticism when they downgrade countries. EPA/Justine LaneCredit rating agencies have played a crucial role in international debt markets for more than 150 years. But they have often attracted controversy. Andile Makholwa, The Conversation Africa’s economics and business editor, asked Matthew Kofi Ocran, Professor of Economics at the … [Read more...] about Q&A: why credit rating agencies matter for developing countries | The Conversation