Debt Restructuring

Renewed partnership will help governments in the region produce and publish reliable, comprehensive and timely debt information.

The organization calls for all debt relief and restructuring to be consistent with the achievement of Agenda 2030.

A new UNCTAD project will help the African nation upgrade its debt management system and improve its capacity to record, monitor and report on public finances.

The international debt system needs an overhaul to address unsustainable debt burdens in developing countries.

Solving the challenges facing this diverse group of nations, which are home to three out of four people, is critical to putting the world on a more sustainable and inclusive post-COVID-19 development path.

The coronavirus pandemic hits developing countries at a time when they have already been struggling with unsustainable debt burdens for many years, as well as with rising health needs. UNCTAD calls for $1 trillion in debt relief.

Concerted and urgent multilateral action is needed to release developing countries from current debt traps.

Representatives of non-governmental organizations told UNCTAD that stopping the anti-globalization tide required a new development narrative, and franker conversations about the risks of open borders

​Representatives of member States contributing to discussions at the sixty-second session of the Trade and Development Board praised UNCTAD's work on sovereign debt crises and the search for a new mechanism to deal with them.

United Nations responds to sovereign debt crises by adopting principles, with UNCTAD support, that could underlie a new legal framework and regulatory mechanisms.