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Jun
2
2020
9:00—10:00 AM ET
May 28, 2020
Countries in Asia experienced the COVID-19 outbreak earlier than in other regions. This session will consider the experience of the pandemic within the region to date, Asia’s economic outlook during this crisis period, and the outlook for policy responses to the health and economic crises.
Blog Post
April 07, 2020
We are so accustomed to the Chinese government’s lack of transparency that the opaqueness of China’s overseas loans seems unremarkable at this point. But as we face what inevitably looks like a global debt crisis, one that is likely to hit low-income countries particularly hard, a clear accounting o...
Press Release
April 02, 2020
As the COVID-19 economic crisis brings about rising concerns over debt sustainability in developing countries, a new report from the Center for Global Development finds that China's loans tend to have shorter grace periods and maturities and higher interest rates than loans from the World Bank....
Apr
2
2020
10:00—11:30 AM ET
April 02, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is on track to take a global human and economic toll unprecedented in modern times. The overriding imperative of implementing effective health measures in each affected country, along with the need to address the damaging economic effects of the pandemic, point to a pressing ne...
Blog Post
March 26, 2020
To better understand the toll of coronavirus, Xiaobo Zhang led a nationwide SME survey in China. In the interest of promoting further efforts in other countries, we are publishing the original Chinese-language survey, English- and Spanish-language versions, and a technical note from Zhang about...
Blog Post
March 26, 2020
In retrospect, the scale up in MDB financing during the 2008-2010 crisis, though significant, now looks conservative as we consider the potential scale of damage from the current COVID-19 pandemic. To put the question bluntly, if the human and economic devastation follows a worst-case scenario, just...