Center for Global Development
Discussion about Debt of Low Income Countries

Debt in Low Income Countries: Where Do We Go From Here?

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Debt in Low Income Countries: Where Do We Go From Here?

A discussion on the recent IMF Report: Macroeconomic Developments and Prospects in Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) – 2018

Remarks

Tao Zhang, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Featuring

Sean Nolan, Deputy Director, Strategy and Policy Review, International Monetary Fund

Anna Gelpern, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

Moderator

Mark Plant, Director of Development Finance and Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development

Some of the world’s poorest countries run the risk of building up a debt pile too high for their economies to support, according to the latest IMF report. The Center for Global Development will host the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to discuss the causes for the debt build up and possible ways forward at the launch of Macroeconomic Developments and Prospects in Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) – 2018. This is the fourth annual report in a series by the IMF that looks at trends and socioeconomic indicators of LIDCs. Visit the event webpage for an overview of key findings from the report and some questions for discussion during the event.

The event will open with remarks from IMF Deputy Managing Director Tao Zhang before moving into a panel discussion moderated by Center for Global Development’s Director of Development Finance and Senior Policy Fellow, Mark Plant.