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GM38: Debt, Stagnation and Policy Responses ft. Barry Eichengreen

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The Debt Crisis in Emerging Markets

There are dozens of low-income countries which came out of COVID with unsustainable debts that are now effectively locked out of the markets. China has been a dismal failure in that only one country, Chad, has been able to restructure its debts under the common framework. Part of the problem is getting China and other governments on the same page to restructure their bilateral intergovernmental debts. The common framework was supposed to help with that but it hasn't. So I'm very concerned and worried about debt problems, the debt crisis in low- income countries and in a number of middle-income countries like Sri Lanka.

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