Jubilee Debt Campaign warns that developing countries are struggling to make debt payments as revenues deteriorate. The collapse in global commodity prices and a stronger US dollar have depleted the public coffers of some of the world’s poorest countries and will leave them as much as $61bn (£43bn) worse off this year, a report has warned.
The Jubilee Debt Campaign said that countries that relied on exports of commodities such as metals and oil had seen government revenues hit by a global markets rout last year that knocked the prices of crude oil, iron ore, copper and other raw materials to multi-year lows...............................................Full Article: Source
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