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Economic think-tank hosted @CEPREMAP supported by @Gatesfoundation working on #development #finance #debt #multilateralism with partners across the Global South
Dec 6, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
New (and inaugural) FDL Working Paper! 🚨🚨🚨🚨
In "The coming debt crisis", findevlab.org/the-coming-deb…
@ChAlbinet and @mkessler_DC look at sovereign external debt dynamics for 113 developing countries under simple assumptions and find that: Under conditions prevailing in end-2021, debt service dynamics were deteriorating moderately. Debt service for the median LIC rises fast until 2023, but declines afterwards, dynamics for LMICs are more persistent
Dec 5, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
Read our latest 📖policy note on #China 🇨🇳as a lender by FDL’s Research Director @ishacdiwan and Shang-Jin Wei of @ColumbiaSIPA, providing a conceptual framework to clarify when & how China could participate in #debt #restructuring processes. 👇
findevlab.org/chinas-develop… Top 50 countries in #China 🇨🇳debt portfolio and their quality