Securing Africa’s Future: Ring-Fencing Development Financing in an Era of Security-Focused Economic Policy

Hinh T. Dinh and Laura Rubidge

No 2450, Policy briefs on Economic Trends and Policies from Policy Center for the New South

Abstract: Africa is facing mutually reinforcing challenges, including trade fragmentation, security focused economic policies, fiscal limitations and technological disruption, which have created a development landscape of unprecedented complexity and constraint. At the same time, there is a systematic mismatch between Africa’s long-term development needs and the short-term fiscal and political pressures that dominate policymaking. This policy brief argues that ring-fencing development expenditures is a potential pathway to reconciling this mismatch. Although there are many challenges spanning the technical, political and institutional domains, this policy brief outlines several policy mechanisms to institutionalise ring-fencing of development financing that have proven to be effective in a number of countries.

Date: 2025-07
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