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Top International economists call for halt to Sri Lanka debt repayments
A group of the world's top economists - including the Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz - have called for Sri
Summary
A group of 121 of the world's eminent economists, including Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, have issued a call for Sri Lanka's debt payments to be suspended due to the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah. This environmental emergency is poised toabsorb - and potentially exceed - the extremely limited fiscal space created by the current debt restructuring package," the group said.
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People
- Joseph Stiglitz2
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake
- Thomas Piketty
- Martín Guzmán
- Jayati Ghosh
- Kate Raworth
Organisations
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- International Monetary Fund
- Debt Justice
- Guardian
Places
- Sri Lanka2
- United States
Keywords
- economists2
- repayments2
- call2
- halt2
- restructuring
- extensive
- climate
- global
- nobel
- prize
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