International Finance: China’s premier vows to work with G20 on debt restructuring

  • 📰 dailymaverick
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 16 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 10%
  • Publisher: 84%

South Africa News News

South Africa South Africa Latest News,South Africa South Africa Headlines

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang promised the International Monetary Fund that Beijing will work with Group of 20 nations to formulate “fair and equitable” debt-restructuring plans for developing countries struggling with repayments.

The nation will implement the G20’s Debt Service Suspension Initiative in all respects, Li said in a meeting on Thursday with IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva, according to a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. China will strengthen policy coordination with all parties, including the crisis lender, to tackle global challenges such as debt, he said.

Both Georgieva and World Bank president David Malpass have long sounded the alarm about record global debt levels, particularly as monetary authorities have had to raise interest rates to quell accelerating inflation.At least 15 of the 72 emerging markets in a Bloomberg index now have dollar debt trading at

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 3. in ZA

South Africa South Africa Latest News, South Africa South Africa Headlines