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[GLOBAL SOUTH] Update on China's Role in the Burgeoning Global South Debt Crisis

The China in Africa Podcast

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The Importance of Fiscal Consolidation in the IMF

China has always had an issue with the fiscal consolidation approach of IMF lending. The IMF came out with its world economic outlook last week, where it shows that fiscal consolidation or austerity programs is not correlated with reducing debt distress because those programs reduce growth. If you have 70 countries in the world that are growing less than output or potential output, that's a drag on global growth. China needs to play a core role here.

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