Save the Children: Convert $60 Billion of Debt Into Fund to Fight COVID-19 in World's Poorest Countries
April 15, 2020
April 15, 2020
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 15 -- Save the Children issued the following news release:
The world's 75 poorest countries are scheduled to pay $60 billion of debts to external creditors in 2020--more than they are set to receive in donor aid to combat COVID-19. This burden will rob them of the financial resources they need for investment in testing, medical equipment, health workers, and safety nets to battle the outbreak, and will push millions more children into poverty, Save the . . .
The world's 75 poorest countries are scheduled to pay $60 billion of debts to external creditors in 2020--more than they are set to receive in donor aid to combat COVID-19. This burden will rob them of the financial resources they need for investment in testing, medical equipment, health workers, and safety nets to battle the outbreak, and will push millions more children into poverty, Save the . . .