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AS THE United Nations climate summit once again failed to deliver any realistic finance to help developing countries deal with the impact of the worsening climate emergency, 144 countries face the worst debt crisis in history.
The fact that there are 193 UN recognised sovereign countries illustrates the depth of the debt crisis facing the beleaguered global South.
A report earlier this year by the campaign group Debt Relief International for Norwegian Church Aid (DRI) shows that repaying the debt is absorbing 41.5 per cent of budget revenues, 41.6 per cent of spending, and 8.4 per cent of gross domestic product on average across the 144 developing countries.
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