The country simply cannot keep on piling debt upon debt.

The American Way of Debt

He also stressed the problem of debt.

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

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

Conquering Europe s Debt Mountain

Cutting the burden of Africa's debt

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

Other debt renegotiations

Debt sustainability and debt relief

Rather than waiting to get rid of debt through bankruptcies, governments should mandate debt forgiveness.

The amount of debt relief would then be determined on the basis of expected development assistance and the need to avoid a new debt overhang.

Interest rates on government debt are still low.

Debt

The debt burden adjustment must continue to be applied as a mark of the international community's solidarity with countries burdened by debt, particularly LDCs.

Moreover, the debt overhang remains massive.

Need for broader external debt relief

The debt ceiling absolutists grossly underestimate the massive adjustment costs of a self imposed sudden stop in debt finance.

Europe s debt problems should, in fact, still be quite manageable provided the requisite write downs and debt restructurings are implemented.

Debt and Delusion

Debt and Democracy

The Debt Delusion

Debt relief

Egyptians need only glance north, at the European debt crisis, to understand they should sort out their debt problem now, rather than waiting until it reaches Greek proportions.

This means extending the maturity dates of debts and reducing the interest rate on the new debt to levels much lower than currently unsustainable market rates.

Now China is experiencing a fourth instance of elevated debt risk, this time characterized by high levels of accumulated local government and corporate debt.

Big banks, not small banks, are the major players in the market for short term debt, which makes their bonds riskier than small banks bonds.

In debt crises, blame tends to fall on the debtors.

But the size of Italy s debt and of Belgium s is worrisome.

As a result, debt overhangs will remain problematic.

Instead, Western prosperity relied increasingly on debt.

Debt relief may help Madagascar protect its biodiversity.

Most of these debts were entered into by many of the discredited leaders.

21. Stresses that debt relief should contribute to development objectives, including poverty reduction, and in this regard urges countries to direct those resources freed through debt relief, in particular through debt cancellation and reduction, towards these objectives

To move forward, the Secretary General proposed that debt sustainability should be redefined as the level of debt that allowed a country to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and reach 2015 without an increase in its debt ratios.

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