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Zambia’s Power Debt Shows How Sovereign Risk Reaches the Farm
An ICIJ investigation published October 26 traces how borrowing by Zambia’s state power utility intersected with drought and electricity rationing. The wider lesson is that sovereign risk can travel through a public utility into production, employment and household incomes long before it appears in a government bond price.
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Weekend Global Financial News Brief: Oman’s IMF Review and Global Risk Signals, October 25, 2026
An IMF mission began two weeks of Article IV consultations in Oman, while the Fund’s recently published financial-stability assessment highlights risks from government borrowing, AI investment and cyber exposure. The week ahead brings a scheduled Fed decision and major U.S. economic releases, with no listed exchange-wide holiday in the reference calendar.
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Weekend Global Financial News Brief: Bangkok Meetings Close With a Split World Economy, October 18, 2026
The IMF and World Bank annual meetings closed in Bangkok on Sunday, October 18, 2026 with a 3.1 percent global growth forecast that hides the sharpest divergence in years, new debt-relief commitments for Iraq and Lebanon, and a U.S. Treasury report showing the fiscal 2026 deficit reached nearly 2 trillion dollars.
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Weekend Global Financial Brief: Inflation, Energy Risk and the Bangkok Meetings
Markets enter the week balancing expensive energy and geopolitical risk against a dense run of inflation data and the start of major-bank earnings. IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok put debt sustainability, energy security, and the spillovers from conflict at the center of the policy agenda.
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Debt Sustainability Explained
How to assess whether a country's debt is sustainable, what the IMF's DSA framework measures, and warning signs.
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Debt Service Explained
What debt service is, how to calculate it, and why the debt-to-GDP and debt-service ratios matter for countries.
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Sovereign Debt Explained
How government borrowing works, why countries issue debt, and what happens when they cannot repay.
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Vietnam's Sovereign Debt Profile — ODA Dependency, Domestic Market Transformation, and Rising Sustainability
Vietnam's sovereign debt is shifting from foreign concessional loans to domestic bond markets, improving sustainability but creating new challenges.
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The Sovereign Debt Dynamics of Egypt: Domestic Crowding Out, External Pressures, and Currency Devaluation
Egypt's sovereign debt exceeds 90% of GDP, with domestic borrowing crowding out private credit and external pressures forcing repeated devaluations.
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Mexican Sovereign Debt — Fiscal Discipline, Sovereign Ratings, and the Legacy of the 1982 Crisis
Mexico transformed from a serial defaulter to a fiscally disciplined investment-grade borrower — but challenges remain.
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Statutory Discipline vs. Shallow Markets: Sovereign Debt Management in Bangladesh
Bangladesh's sovereign debt management is disciplined on paper but constrained by shallow domestic capital markets.
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Bangladesh's Sovereign Debt Dynamics — Concessional Multi-Lateralism, Domestic Shallows, and Growing Exposure
Bangladesh's debt is low but increasingly vulnerable as concessional financing declines and commercial borrowing rises.
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Sovereign Debt Sustainability in Vietnam — Concessional Loans and the Domestic Market Transition
Vietnam's sovereign debt is shifting from concessional multilateral loans to domestic market financing. Here's how the transition is managed.
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From Borrower to Creditor: Brazil's Evolutionary Relationship with the IMF
Brazil transformed from one of the IMF's largest borrowers to a net creditor. Here's how the relationship evolved and what it means for emerging markets.
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The IMF Explained — How the World’s Emergency Lender Works
The International Monetary Fund is the lender of last resort for nations in financial crisis. Here's what it actually does, how its programs work, and why it's so controversial.
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Sovereign Debt — Who Buys Government Bonds and What Happens When Countries Can't Pay
Every major government on earth borrows money. Some borrow sustainably for decades. Others spiral into default, currency collapse, and IMF bailouts. Here's the full arc of sovereign debt — from bond issuance to crisis.
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Argentina's Endless Default — A Country That Has Collapsed Nine Times and Survived Every One
Argentina has defaulted on its sovereign debt nine times since independence. It has experienced hyperinflation, currency board collapse, corralito bank freezes, peso devaluations, and IMF programme failures. Yet Argentina's economy persists, its people adapt, and the cycle repeats. This is the full
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