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The formation of a borrowers' collective echoes the Non-Aligned Movement and could lead to coordinated debt restructuring demands, potentially destabilizing global bond markets and prompting investors to seek alternative stores of value like Bitcoin.

Pakistan was elected to chair a newly formed borrowers' collective of developing countries.

Pakistan to Chair New Developing Nations Debt Collective

Pakistan's Debt Collective Could Accelerate Sovereign Bitcoin Adoption as a Hedge Against IMF Conditionality

This comes amid a broader debt crisis in emerging markets exacerbated by high global interest rates and a strong dollar. Successful implementation could reduce tail risks of chaotic defaults, while failure could spook bondholders and trigger contagion across frontier markets.

Senegal plans to use an improved version of the G-20 Common Framework to secure fair distribution of debt relief across creditors, testing the framework's effectiveness.