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China’s Central Bank is Becoming the Developing World’s “Payday Lender”

by Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding October 22, 2024

With the developing world’s growing use of costly and opaque “payday loans” from China’s central bank, the IMF and World Bank need to demand far greater transparency from Beijing. 

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