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“A detailed analysis showed that 61 of 154 rated sovereigns were downgraded by at least one of the three major rating agencies during the Covid-19 pandemic. Developing countries were [affected] by almost all sovereign downgrades, negative outlooks and rating revisions,” says the Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2022, which was published on 12 April.
The report, which devotes a long – and largely unnoticed – section to the detrimental impact of the rating agencies’ decisions, was produced by the UN’s Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development and some 60 multilateral institutions, including the IMF, the World Bank, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors and the Financial Stability Board.
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The study draws a parallel between the severity of the world’s leading
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