The report warns that the country may be heading towards a debt situation similar to Sri Lanka, which suffered a major ...

A recent report surprised when it showed high and upper-middle income countries accounted for 76 percent of Chinese loans ...

China has dramatically curtailed its lending in recent years. Now, it's emerging as the largest debt collector for many of the world's poorest nations — a shift that threatens to undermine poverty ...

In view of the increased dependence of Dhaka on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of China, it is no wonder that Bangladesh ...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif leads a delegation in discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, Sep. 2, 2025. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Pakistan During the ...

With developing nations crushed by unaffordable borrowing and Washington on the sidelines, some leaders are brokering debt forgiveness deals. By Patricia Cohen Reporting from Rome At a summit meeting ...

Last month, at a seminar on the state of the economy, the chairman of the National Board of Revenue said that Bangladesh has "already slipped into a form of debt trap." ...

Vietnam, for example, was once one of the poorest countries in the world. But a series of economic reforms in the late ’80s — accompanied by $26 billion in World Bank loans since 1993 — literally ...

The United States can compete more effectively with Chinese investment in Africa if it sheds its security-focused, all-or-nothing mindset. Geoeconomic policies—defined as the use of economic tools to ...

In nine middle-income countries, we asked additional questions about relations with China and the U.S. Across the nine middle-income nations surveyed, a median of 58% say investment from China is a ...

Once the world's largest financier, China has in recent years become its top debt collector as grace periods expire on billions of dollars in loans issued to the global south. This year, a record $22 ...