Paulo Casaca

Paulo Casaca is the founder and executive director of the South Asia Democratic Forum. A former Member of the European Parliament for Portugal’s Socialist Party from 1999 to 2009, he is the founder of the Brussels-based association, ARCHumankind, ‘Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind’, and a founder and senior partner of the Brussels-based sustainable development consultancy, Lessmeansmore.

Twitter : @paulocasaca1

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Pushing back against China's debt-trap deniers

20 October 2022

Politics & economy

Pushing back against China’s debt-trap deniers

Paulo Casaca : Although China did not invent the concept of the ‘debt-trap’, as the world’s most important source of international development finance, China is [...]Read the full article

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