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The persistent and damaging debt problems gripping a number of developing world nations will be a core topic during the G20 summit in Delhi next month. Zambia was the first African country to default during the COVID-19 pandemic and after a long-awaited burst of progress in recent months finally looks to be closing in on a repair plan. The details are still being worked on, but the government also hopes to reach a deal in the coming months with the international funds that hold its unpaid sove...

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Some offshore creditors of embattled Chinese developer Country Garden are in talks with a New York-based law firm and are considering options including legal ones, by forming a group if the company seeks to restructure its debt, a representative for the law firm said. While Country Garden is one of the few leading private developers in China that has not defaulted on its offshore debt obligation yet, its liquidity stress became public earlier this month after it missed two dollar coupon payment...

(Bloomberg) -- China Evergrande Group creditors will vote on the developer’s offshore-debt overhaul proposal Monday, a key step in a protracted process to finalize a blueprint for what would be one of the country’s biggest restructurings ever.Most Read from BloombergMarkets Ready for Swings After High-Rates Mantra of Jackson HoleTrump Doesn’t Look So Invincible in Post-Debate PollsChina Stocks May Open Higher on Measures to Boost MarketChina’s Worsening Economic Slowd...

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A new plan for restructuring $10 billion in debt owed by Puerto Rico’s power company was filed late Friday in the latest attempt to end a lengthy bankruptcy process marked by acrimonious negotiations. The plan filed by a federal control board that oversees the U.S. territory’s finances would cut the debt of Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority by nearly 80% to some $2.5 billion. “We hope that we will be closing not just the chapter but most of the book on the larg...

Chinas stock market was plunging and its currency was teetering. The head of the central bank, fielding questions at a rare news conference, said China would make it easier to get home mortgages. It was February 2016 and Zhou Xiaochuan, the central banks longtime governor at the time, announced what proved to be the start of an extraordinary blitz of lending by Chinas immense banking system.

Chinas dependence on real estate was lucrative during what seemed like a never-ending property boom, but it has become a liability after years of excessive borrowing and overbuilding. When China was growing faster, the excesses were papered over as developers borrowed more to pay off mounting debts. But now China is struggling to regain its footing after emerging from the paralyzing pandemic lockdowns its leaders imposed, and many of its economic problems are pointing back to real estate.