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    <title>The G20 Common Framework Fixed Who Sits at the Table. It Never Fixed the Clock.</title>
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    <description>The Common Framework brought China and the Paris Club into one restructuring process for the first time. It left the timeline open-ended, and the IMF and World Bank have since called the missing standstill and deadline design gaps. The delay, not the generosity of each settlement, has been its most underpriced cost.</description>
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    <content:encoded><![CDATA[New analysis on The Geopolitical Economist

The G20 Common Framework Fixed Who Sits at the Table. It Never Fixed the Clock.

Chad, Zambia, Ghana and Ethiopia waited one to three years for restructuring under the G20 Common Framework. The delay, not the terms, is its biggest cost.

The Common Framework brought China and the Paris Club into one restructuring process for the first time. It left the timeline open-ended, and the IMF and World Bank have since called the missing standstill and deadline design gaps. The delay, not the generosity of each settlement, has been its most underpriced cost.

From the opening:
“Nearly six years after the Group of Twenty created the Common Framework for Debt Treatment in November 2020, the mechanism has produced a real and underappreciated achievement: for the first time, it placed the Paris Club of traditional bilateral creditors and China, now the largest single bilateral creditor to many…”

By Camilo Flora Matsumbo, Researcher and economic analyst, Mozambique

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/g20-common-framework-fixed-the-table-not-the-clock

#Geopolitics #Africa #China #Zambia #Ghana #Ethiopia]]></content:encoded>
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