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Pakistan to Chair Global Borrowers Group Facing ‘Perfect Storm’

Bloomberg12 October 2026, 13:43 UTCPakistan

A newly formed borrowers’ collective of developing countries elected Pakistan to chair it as the group faced what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called “a perfect storm.”

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