Economics
Facing Tsunami of Defaults, G-20 Agrees to Step Up Debt Help
- Group sets common strategy to overhaul poor countries’ debts
- Deal aims to bolster China and private creditors’ relief roles
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The world’s top economies backed a new plan for restructuring the debt of poor countries hit by the Covid-19 pandemic to avert a messy wave of defaults.
The common framework for debt treatment was endorsed by the Group of 20 -- which includes China -- and the Paris Club, a grouping of mostly western government creditors, according to a G-20 statement after an extraordinary meeting of its finance ministers and central bankers.