LONDON — The punishing post-pandemic wave of sovereign defaults has finally crested, with the likes of Ghana, Sri Lanka and Zambia concluding years of painful debt reworks.

But the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others worry that a dangerous liquidity shortfall could take its place in many emerging economies — setting back development, stunting climate change mitigation, and fuelling distrust in governments and Western institutions.

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