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The Tradeoffs of Transparency in Sovereign Debt Markets
The early 21st century has brought remarkable gains for emerging markets and developing economies. Growth is up, poverty and inequality are down. But the repeated shocks of the past decade—lower commodity prices, the Covid-19 pandemic, tariffs—have undermined many of these gains. The development outlook has darkened for many countries, and questions of debt sustainability have come to the fore. Discussions of sovereign debt sustainability increasingly focus on debt transparency […]