China is becoming more confident all the while in setting up international public-private partnerships, though many African countries still worry about a repeat of the debt crisis in the 1980s and 1990s when nations could not pay off debt, Ryder says in an African Business commentary. International organizations ultimately wrote off that wave of unaffordable debt with conditions including opening "their economies to international trade, liberalize their currencies and drastically cut costs in exchange for loans," wrote Peter Fabricius in the Institute for Security Studies.
Ryder avuga ko Ubushinwa bugenda bugira icyizere mu mikoranire mpuzamahanga ya Leta n’abikorera ku giti cyabo, nubwo ibihugu byinshi bya Afurika bikomeje guhangayikishwa n' ikibazo cy’imyenda yo mu myaka ya za 1980 na 1990 igihe ibihugu bitashoboye kwishyura imyenda, nk'uko Ryder abitangaza. . Peter Fabricius mu kigo cy’ubushakashatsi mubijyanye n'umutekano yaranditse ati: "Imiryango mpuzamahanga yamaze gusonera imyenda itakibasha kwishyurwa, harimo iy'ibiribwa, ubukungu bwabo muby' ubucuruzi mpuzamahanga, kwishyira ukizana kwabo no kugabanya amafaranga menshi kugira ngo bahabwe inguzanyo ".