The World Bank says Malawi should undertake sweeping fiscal and structural reforms to restore debt sustainability, because ...

The World Bank is sounding the alarm on a mounting debt squeeze in poorer nations, warning that the gap between what they owe and what they can borrow has widened to a 50-year extreme. The strain is ...

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The gap between developing nations' debt servicing costs and new financing hit a more than 50-year high of $741 billion between 2022 and 2024, the World Bank said on ...

WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap ...

Nigeria's IDA debt surged to $18.7 billion, raising concerns over fiscal sustainability as World Bank loans now account for 41.3% of external debt.

The gap between external debt repayments and new financing in developing countries widened to $741 billion between 2022 and 2024, the largest in at least 50 years, according to the World Bank. Debt ...