Government ministers of poor and indebted nations will this week appeal to their creditors for a much more ambitious debt relief effort as they grapple with the healthcare and economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
They will set out their case for greater support from foreign governments and multilateral lenders as delegates gather for the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank.
Financial assistance for cash-strapped governments has so far fallen well short of what is needed and of what advanced economies have been willing to do for themselves according to critics.
As Covid spread across the world this spring, the G20 group of leading nations hammered out an agreement to allow 73 of the worlds poorest countries to post…
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