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Monday, 05 Apr 2021 06:02 PM MYT BY SOO WERN JUN PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim warned the Perikatan Nasional government that rising personal debt among Malaysians, especially those taken to buy homes and vehicles, will derail post Covid-19 economic recovery efforts if nothing is done immediately. — Picture by Miera Zulyana Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 — Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today urged...

Maharashtra, which has the single largest share in national GDP with close to 16 per cent and the worst hit with the pandemic, has fallen into the worst debt trap with fiscal deficit hitting the highest since 2005-06 at 3.3 per cent, up over 175 per cent, according to a report. In line with higher-than-budgeted deficit ratios, the states debt-to-GSDP ratio has jumped to 20.2 per cent in 2020-21, up from 16 per cent in 2019-20, and the 2020-21 Budget Estimate of 16.2 per cent, India Ratings sa...

Updated: Share Article AAA Telangana Telugu Desam Party (TTDP) president and MLC candidate for Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahabubngar Graduate MLC constituency, L. Ramana said the ruling TRS had turned the surplus state into debt-ridden state with its corruption and it was time the party was taught a lesson. Addressing a Meet the Press here on Friday, he alleged that Chief Miniser, K. Chandrasekhar Rao had lost a great opportunity of serving the state with sincerity and focussed on destroying all t...

Director General, World Trade Organization Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). She is an economist and international development expert with over 30 years of experience. She was Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (2016 – 2020), the African Risk Capacity (2014 – 2020) and Co-Chair of The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.  Previously, she served as Senior Advisor at Lazard and sat on the Boards of Standard Chartered...

Jubilee Centre David McIlroy Debt and taxes: the United Kingdom Chancellor’s dilemma The idea of jubilee articulated in the Old Testament points to an entirely different economic model from the one fuelled by debt and interest which financialised capitalism depends on. 03 MARCH 2021 · 11:08 CET Rishi Sunark, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK. / Photo: HM Tr...

How Punjabs Rural Women, Neck-Deep in Debt, Are Trapped in Microloan Cycles RBI regulations to check over-borrowing or ghost borrowers have failed to deliver, catching women in a cruel cycle of taking loans to repay loans. A group of women in Mansas Joga village in Punjab say most of them are in extreme mental distress due to loan overburden and inability to repay. Photo: Vivek Gupta Reportage18/Feb/2021 Mansa/Sangrur/Barnala: “I feel like ending my life but who will look after my kids,â�...

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COMMENTS / EXPERT ASSESSMENT By Global Times Published: Feb 17, 2021 09:08 PM Illustration: Tang Tengfei/GTMany underdeveloped countries have seen their debt pressure being highlighted due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which, in the eyes of some ill-intentioned foreign media outlets and anti-China forces, provides the best chance to smear China by hyping up the groundless "Chinese debt trap" theory.  China postponed $245 million of Kenyan debt repayments which are due over the...

In yet another example of China`s debt-trap diplomacy, Kenya has been roped in a deal with a six-month debt repayment holiday worth USD 245 million. The deal was struck a week after the Paris club of creditors, an informal group of creditors offered the same debt-service suspension worth USD 300 million until the end of June 2021.

Representative Image ANI | Updated: Feb 16, 2021 15:30 IST Beijing [China], February 16 (ANI): In yet another example of Chinas debt-trap diplomacy, Kenya has been roped in a deal with a six-month debt repayment holiday worth USD 245 million. The deal was struck a week after the Paris club of creditors, an informal group of creditors offered the same debt-service suspension worth USD 300 million until the end of June 2021. The African nation has been strugg...