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Twelve developing nations are on the verge of defaulting on their debts. The pandemic caused already impoverished nations to incur unprecedented levels of debt. Because of rising interest rates, a slow economic recovery, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they might not be able to pay back their debts.
According to Marcello Estevao, the global director for macroeconomics, trade, and investments at the World Bank, even before the war, more than half of the world’s poorest countries were in debt distress or close to it. This was true even before the war began. Now, these same countries have to deal with the fact that the prices of wheat and oil are going up, and interest rates are going up, which makes it more expensive to pay back debt interest.
In order to determine how much wiggle room a nation has to repay its debts, the World Bank analyses the upcoming bond payments for each nation and compares those costs to the nation’s reserves and fiscal deficit.
The cost of borrowing money is already going up across Africa, and the government of Sri Lanka is currently debating whether or not to participate in a programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in order to reduce the country’s overall level of debt.
How should a debt crisis be managed on a global scale?
If we were to experience a debt crisis right now, it would most likely be on a much smaller scale than in the past. The debt crisis that hit Latin America in the 1980s involved more than two dozen different countries, and by the middle of the 1990s, there were more than 30 countries with levels of debt that were unsustainable; this was the impetus for the creation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative.
However, in contrast to previous crises, the countries currently experiencing financial difficulty hold a greater amount of debt with private creditors as opposed to government creditors. Because of this, it is going to be a lot harder for a country to restructure its debts. “It is much harder to get everyone around the table to do the debt restructuring if you have greater exposure to a greater number of creditors, particularly small creditors,” Estevao said.
So that a crisis doesn’t happen, he said that wealthy countries should act right away and streamline the process of debt restructuring so that defaults can be dealt with more quickly and kindly than in the past.
