WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Group of 20 major economies, led this year by South Africa, said on Thursday the risk of a systemic debt crisis appears to be broadly contained, but many vulnerable low- and ...

A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) examines the sovereign debt trap cycle and the need for systemic reforms to the international financial architecture that ...

Amid rising domestic sovereign debt overhang in some emerging and developing economies (EMDEs), this paper underscores the importance of effective domestic sovereign debt restructuring (DDR) ...

(Reuters) -Lower-income countries' external debt payments to private lenders remain three times higher than payments to China, research shows, shedding light on the complex, costly web of creditors ...

Geneva [Switzerland]: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday highlighted debt as a major barrier to development for countries worldwide while launching the Sevilla Forum on Debt.

This report deserves serious attention not only because it once again acknowledges that the U.S. fiscal path is under ...

The gap between external debt repayments and new financing in developing countries widened to $741 billion between 2022 and 2024, the largest in at least 50 years, according to the World Bank. Debt ...