{"id":166688,"date":"2025-12-03T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166688\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:47:03","slug":"debt-gap-at-50-year-high-in-emerging-countries-world-bank-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166688\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt Gap at 50-Year High in Emerging Countries, World Bank Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Debt payments, which include principal and interest, have ballooned as average interest rates for these nations rose to the highest since just before the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the bank said in its latest International Debt Report released on Wednesday. Their external debt reached a record $8.9 trillion last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gap between external debt repayments and new financing in developing countries widened to $741 billion between 2022&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14345,138,12684,5399,34949,219,84,76800,108597,3508,220,111,139,69,81493,3912,24547],"class_list":{"0":"post-166688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-angola","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-capital-markets","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-developing-countries","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-education","15":"tag-government-bonds","16":"tag-indermit-gill","17":"tag-interest-rates","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-suriname","23":"tag-wealth","24":"tag-world-bank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}