Billions of dollars are being loaned on high-interest terms to poor countries seeking help to cope with the impacts of climate breakdown, according to an Oxfam report. The loan terms risk storing up debt burdens lasting far into the future, the charity says. Poor countries are reported to have received about $60bn (45bn) of climate…
By Andrea Shalal 3 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the International Monetary Fund on Sunday called for significant steps to address the increasingly unsustainable debt burdens of some countries, urging creditors and debtors to start restructuring processes sooner rather than later. Slideshow ( 2 images ) IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said…
The World Bank has warned that the coronavirus outbreak is turning into a major economic crisis and could likely see the emergence of a financial crisis from the pandemic. This disclosure was made by the World Bank Chief Economist, Carmen Reinhart, during an interview with Bloomberg Television. Reinhart during the interview said, This did not…
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The Covid-19 pandemic is putting government finances of many developing countries under severe strain (Djankov and Panizza 2020). In response, a range of proposals and calls for action have been floated by experts and policy makers (Bolton et al. 2020a, 2020b, Bulow et al. 2020; Horn et al. 2020; Landers et al. 2020). In a…
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Go out there and spend. Dont worry about the build up of debt. You will be making a mistake if you remove support for your economies too soon. Thats the message from Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, to finance ministers as they contemplate how to deal with the economic damage…
LONDON (Reuters) – Rich nations, development banks and private creditors need to ramp up support for poorer countries to prevent humanitarian crises and a lost decade of global growth, the prominent G30 group of former policymakers and academics said on Wednesday. How to support struggling countries is the most pressing issue being discussed during the…