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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Larry Elliott in Washington

World Bank official calls for shake-up of G20 debt relief scheme

Delegates from various countries sit at a circular desk as one of the speakers is shown on a large screen
Delegates attend a World Bank development committee meeting in Washington on Friday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The mechanism for providing debt relief to the world’s poorest countries is failing to produce results and requires a major rethink, a senior official at the World Bank has said.

Indermit Gill, the bank’s chief economist, said that after four years the G20’s common framework – designed to speed up and simplify debt restructuring – had not provided a single dollar of new money.

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