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Asia faces debt crisis risk from energy shocks, IMF and World Bank warn

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Rising energy costs are creating a significant risk of debt crises in Asia, particularly for energy-importing and lower-income nations. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have highlighted that these countries are facing difficulties in repaying their debts due to dwindling foreign exchange reserves. The World Bank reports that between 2022 and 2024, these countries paid substantially more in debt servicing than they received in new financing, making them vulnerable to further energy price shocks. AI

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Asia faces debt crisis risk from energy shocks, IMF and World Bank warn

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Syed Munir Khasru ·

    Energy shock could spark Asia’s next debt crisis

    A country need not run out of money to find itself in a debt crisis. It only has to run short of US dollars to pay for its energy. At the recent International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, the IMF, which expects global economic growth of 3.1 per cent this y…

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