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  China's 'mysterious' debt rules pushing poorest countries including Pakistan to brink of collapse

  World | May 18, 2023, 05:44 PM IST

  Surprisingly, debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel.

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  Crisis-hit Sri Lanka announces debt default

  World | Apr 12, 2022, 01:42 PM IST

  The debt servicing suspension will be in force for an interim period pending an orderly and consensual restructuring consistent with the proposed arrangement with the IMF.

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  Congress votes to end US shutdown, avoid default

  World | Oct 17, 2013, 08:40 AM IST

  Washington: Congress passed legislation Wednesday night to avert a U.S. debt default and end a government shutdown, a bipartisan deal set along President Barack Obama's strict terms that left Republicans little to show for the

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