Global 3000 | Interview with Francois Bourguignon

231 views · Published 31 March 2009 · 2:41 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: DW News · 2009 · News & Politics

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Developing and emerging countries have been among the hardest hit by the global financial crisis. Many of them are struggling with rising interest rates just as prices for raw materials are falling.Bourguignon says they need substantial financial assistance,because they already have big current account deficits. Soon they will no longer be able to pay for the imported goods they need,threatening to destroy progress that took years to achieve.

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