Global debt is 'double the world's economic output'
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If we wanted to pay back the total debt owed around the world, one of us would need to donate one dollar every second for more than 7 million years. Of course, that isn't a sensible answer, but with 60 countries in financial distress, a more sensible answer does need to be found. CGTN Europe's The Agenda program spoke to Tobias Adrian who wrote the International Monetary Fund's latest Global Financial Stability Report and asked him what it is most worried about.

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