NEW YORK: A pause in debt payments for the world’s poorest countries to help them battle the coronavirus will be a hard sell for private creditors.
The Group of 20 leading economies last week heeded calls from African finance ministers to grant a debt waiver of about US$20bil until the end of the year, and asked private creditors to step up.
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