Fears of possible debt crisis haunt ADB meet
Global debt has reached US$217 trillion - a record 325 per cent of world GDP - much of it in emerging non-financial corporations
Yokohama
THIS year's Asian Development Bank annual meeting took place in Yokohama under the threat of a possible military emergency involving North Korea. But a different kind of threat - that from a huge overhang of corporate debt in Asia and elsewhere - cast shadows over the ADB meeting.
Senior government ministers including Japan's finance minister Taro Aso, Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Philippine finance secretary Carlos Dominguez were among those to warn of the need for "vigilance" against a possible new debt crisis.
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