ISLAMABAD: Washington on Friday rolled over an agreement to suspend service payments on $132 million of Pakistan's debt, the US embassy in Islamabad said,...
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The idea of forgiving debt held by poor countries in exchange for "green" investments gained ground this week during the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, with concrete proposals expected in time for a global climate summit this fall.
Major creditors, including China, will be expected to follow the joint guidelines agreed by the G20, which lays out how debt deemed to be unsustainable can be reduced or rescheduled
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday urged the G20 states and the world economic bodies to grant debt relief to developing countries for at least one year as their economies have been hit hard by the novel coronavirus.
Highlighting the economic challenges faced by developing countries amid COVID-19 pandemic, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday urged Denmark to play its role on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s proposal for debt relief.
The G20 countries have provided a major relief to Pakistan by postponing debt payment worth $12 billion in the current fiscal year and approved the time period up to 2.5 years.
PM Imran Khan invited the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres to work with him in advancing the objectives of a coordinated response.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that his agency, the World Bank and the IMF backed debt relief to help developing countries cope with the pandemic’s social and economic consequences.