DAVOS In today s world, identifying and managing hotspots is not simply a matter of pulling out a map, spotting the wildfires, and empowering diplomats to douse the flames. To understand today s major conflicts and confrontations, we must recognize important ways in which global political conditions enable them.

Debt

Debt and Delusion

Debt and Democracy

The Debt Delusion

Debt relief

The country simply cannot keep on piling debt upon debt.

Debt Déjà Vu

Europe s Debt Wish

(d) Debt burden

Austerity and Debt Realism

Debt and America s Decline

The Debt Death Trap

The Government Debt Bomb

Haiti External debt

External debt

External debt

In 2008, on the eve of the financial crisis, three quarters of Portuguese debt, half of Spanish and Greek debt, and more than 40 of Italian debt was held by foreigners.

Those who fear excessive public debt are the banks that hold it.

And the evidence confirms that the euro crisis is not really about sovereign debt, but about foreign debt.

What To Do About Debt

Recovery of indebtedness to the Fund

He is deeply in debt now.

Africa u0027s Debt Dilemma

America s First Debt Crisis

Our Deep Debt Future

Greece s Bogus Debt Deal

The American Way of Debt

Argentina s Debt Conundrum

The Debt Growth Controversy

and development

Debt to Member States

PMLC Prime Minister's Literacy Commission.

When the foreign share of debt grows, so do the political incentives to impose the costs of that debt on foreigners.

In an ideal world, Europe would deal with its excessive debt burdens through a restructuring of Greek, Irish, and Portuguese liabilities, as well as municipal and bank debt in Spain.

We must also bear in mind the role that debt plays as a financing tool for development debt financing is appropriate only where there is a reasonable expectation that loans will be repaid.

But the principle of debt forgiveness clearly has applications for public debt as well, especially in the eurozone.

First, debt continually grows second, there is no really satisfactory way of getting rid of it.

Greek sovereign debt has been downgraded to below that of Egypt.

Restructuring Debt Restructuring

China s Debt Termites

Sovereign Debt at Square One

America s Debt Ceiling Debacle

He that dies pays all debts.

A debt crisis is not inevitable.