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中国正在谈判一项妥协方案，这可能有助于打破为陷入困境的发展中国家进行的数十亿美元的债务减免谈判的僵局。根据新计划，中国将放弃要求多边贷款人在任何债务重组交易中承担损失，以换取大型多边贷款人和区域合作伙伴向债务重组国家提供新的低成本融资，包括赠款。然后，谈判可以转向赞比亚债务重组的细节。
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全球利率的上升和投资者的担忧使得许多发展中国家的借贷更加昂贵，大约60%的低收入国家面临着债务风险或陷入债务困境。中国官员将与其他主要发展中国家的债权人代表一起参加本周由国际货币基金组织、世界银行和印度政府召开的会谈。中国一直反对对其贷款的票面价值进行损失。
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中国官员已经软化了他们对多边贷款人的立场，目前正在就这些贷款人的作用进行潜在的妥协谈判。关于如何做出新的融资承诺，以及如何为赠款提供资金的问题仍然存在。
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世界银行通过国际开发协会向世界上约70个最贫穷的国家提供赠款和低息贷款。在截至2022年6月的12个月里，国际开发协会承诺提供377.3亿美元的新融资。非洲开发银行承诺在2022年提供约14.4亿美元的赠款。美国指出，开发银行通常向受债务困扰的国家提供额外援助，由于赞比亚最近的经济困难，世界银行预计将开始向其提供赠款。
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中国外交部表示，多边开发银行应参与债务减免，并为帮助发展中国家做出贡献，而亚洲开发银行、渣打银行、非洲开发银行和贝莱德银行则拒绝发表评论。世界银行行长大卫-马尔帕斯（David Malpass）表示，希望债务圆桌会议将有助于为贫困国家提供债务减免。
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法国财政部长布鲁诺-勒梅尔(Bruno Le Maire)提议改变开发银行的作用，使其在消除贫困和富国与穷国之间日益扩大的分歧方面更加有效。他还敦促银行更加努力，将更多的资本用于贷款和保护。法国财政部是包括赞比亚和埃塞俄比亚在内的几个有债务问题的国家的债权人委员会的共同主席。
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China is negotiating a compromise that could help break the logjam in multibillion-dollar debt-relief talks for struggling developing nations. Under the new plan, China would drop its demand for multilateral lenders to take losses in any debt-restructuring deals in exchange for big multilateral lenders and regional partners providing fresh low-cost financing, including grants, to countries whose debt is being restructured. Negotiations could then move on to the details of Zambia’s debt restructuring.
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Rising global interest rates and investor concerns have made it more expensive for many developing countries to borrow, with around 60% of low-income countries at risk of or in debt distress. Chinese officials will join representatives of other major developing-country creditors for talks this week convened by the IMF, the World Bank, and the Indian government. China has opposed taking losses on face value of its loans.
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Chinese officials have softened their position on multilateral lenders, and are now in talks about a potential compromise on the role of these lenders. Questions remain about how new financing commitments would be made, and how the grants would be funded.
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The World Bank provides grants and low interest loans to around 70 of the world’s poorest countries through the International Development Association. In the 12 months ended June 2022, the IDA committed to $37.73 billion in new financing. The African Development Bank committed approximately $1.44 billion in grants in 2022. The U.S. has noted that development banks typically provide additional aid to countries in debt distress, and the World Bank is expected to begin providing grants to Zambia due to its recent economic hardship.
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China’s Foreign Ministry has stated that multilateral development banks should participate in debt relief and make contributions to help developing countries, while the Asian Development Bank, Standard Chartered, African Development Bank, and BlackRock have declined to comment. World Bank President David Malpass has expressed hope that the debt roundtable will help to provide debt relief to poor countries.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has proposed a change in the role of development banks to make them more effective in fighting poverty and the growing divergence between rich and poor countries. He has also urged the banks to press harder and use more of their capital to lend and protect. The French Treasury is a co-chair of the creditor committees of several countries in debt troubles, including Zambia and Ethiopia.