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The World Bank is sounding the alarm on a mounting debt squeeze in poorer nations, warning that the gap between what they owe and what they can borrow has widened to a 50-year extreme. The strain is ...

The year 2024 marked a critical turning point for global debt dynamics, according to the LMICs entered a phase of slower borrowing.

From the Covid-19 pandemic to advanced-economy interest-rate hikes, developments over the last few years have left many developing economies struggling to repay their debts. But the problem might be ...

Governments aren’t doing enough to address their debt problems, and if they continue this inaction, the world economy will pay. The exceedingly high debt levels across the world’s major economies ...

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The gap between developing nations' debt servicing costs and new financing hit a more than 50-year high of $741 billion between 2022 and 2024, the World Bank said on ...

To live in the United States is to live in debt and mostly scrape by. It all weighs; it all can destroy families and divide communities. The wealthy weaponize it against working people, to try to ...

According to the Congressional Budget Office’s most recent report, at a time of cyclical strength and very low unemployment, the US is running a budget deficit of seven percent of GDP while its public ...

The world is currently mired in record-setting debt. Last year, the combined borrowing of households, businesses and governments across the globe eclipsed $315 trillion. And in the first quarter of ...

One way of measuring global policy-makers’ concerns about the unprecedented increase in debt around the world is the number of times the subject is raised at high-level conferences. And it comes up ...

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.