China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief.
China has become the world's largest bilateral creditor to low- and middle-income countries, and yet its participation in collective debt-relief frameworks led by western multilateral institutions—the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Paris Club—has not met those institutions' expe...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 99; no. 4; pp. 1755 - 1776 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2023
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