Failure to cut debt burden of some countries could hamper growth, spark conflict, Yellen says

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Saturday underscored the urgent need to reduce the debt burden of heavily indebted countries, warning that failure to do so would set back development in poor countries and could lead to more war, fragility and conflict.

Yellen told reporters traveling with her in Africa that she and other U.S. officials had gone through "many details of this debt overhang situation" during her meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in Zurich on Tuesday.

Yellen, long critical of the pace of China's efforts on debt treatments for Zambia and other countries, on Friday called again for China and other countries to provide "timely," "comprehensive" andYellen said U.S. officials expressed specific concern about Zambia, whose debt restructuring effort under the Group of 20 Common Framework has taken much longer to resolve than expected. Yellen will visit Zambia next week.

Failure to act would result in negative spillovers, including conflict, fragility, war, terrorism and migration, she said, sucking up resources that would hamper a country's ability to grow and move forward, Yellen said. Lenders would get less if a country "falls into economic chaos" than if it can invest and grow, she said.

 

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Look at that lost monster in her cave

Don’t you think it is a touch ironic coming from the treasury secretary and former head of the Federal Reserve of the country that is over 31 Trillion dollars in debt? No self awareness…

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Yes

Is the US one of them

Including the US

There is going to be a serious uprising against Chinese debt in Africa. The debt trap is going to destroy many African countries

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