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Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable - 4th Cochairs Progress Report
April 23, 2025
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IMF Communications Department
MEDIA RELATIONS
PRESS OFFICER: Randa Elnagar
Phone: +1 202 623-7100Email: MEDIA@IMF.org
Washington, DC: The Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) met today and reviewed progress on the work to improve debt restructuring processes and timelines, and to help address debt vulnerabilities. Participants also discussed priority areas for the work going forward. At the end of the meeting, the International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank Group President Ajay Banga, and Finance Minister of South Africa, G20 Presidency, Enoch Godongwana, co-chairs of the GSDR, issued the attached “Restructuring Playbook”, which aims to provide debtor country authorities considering a debt restructuring with the key steps, concepts and processes for such an operation. They also issued the attached GSDR 4th Cochairs Report as well as the compilation of technical issues discussed by the GSDR so far.
The GSDR brings together debtor countries and official and private creditors with the objective to build common understanding among key stakeholders on debt sustainability and debt restructuring challenges, and ways to address them.
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