Frontier Market Borrowing Binge

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Frontier Market Borrowing Binge

 

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Rock bottom global interest rates have been a boon for so-called frontier-market countries, which have been able to borrow cheaply to finance their development needs. But there can be too much of a good thing: countries that don’t put the money to good use may have trouble servicing their loans and find [...]
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