If a member country ran up additional debts, it could borrow only in its own name.

That translates into an additional 16billion per year in interest payments on Greece s current debt of 273 billion.

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While the Syrian Arab Republic welcomed the Group of Eight's decision to cancel the debts of the poorest countries, it felt that the debts of all the less developed countries should be cancelled, and that the debts of the middle income countries should be substantially reduced.

In addition, regulators should require banks to issue an additional amount of capital say, 10 in the form of long term debt that is forced to convert into equity if the bank and the overall banking system get into financial difficulty.

Mortgage debts, too, must be written down.

This is needed to prevent even more private debt being put on government balance sheets, causing a fiscal blowout.

Government debt must be restructured. Bank debts have to be converted into equity and, where banks are insolvent, written off.

Many Americans now have too much debt.

India has written off the debts of all the highly indebted poor countries.

It means that some portion of members debts will be mutualized individual governments debts would become Eurobonds, and thus a joint obligation of all members.

To consolidate (the budget), or not to consolidate, that is the question.

Debtor countries pay substantial risk premiums for financing their government debt.

Many enterprises in the city are facing colossal debt problems.

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It is a mistake to look only at a country s liabilities, and ignore its assets.

There was also an explosion of credit card debt.

C. The Group of Eight proposals for debt cancellation for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries

And, with banks balance sheets having been strengthened, it will be possible to restructure mortgage debts, bank debts, and other private sector debts without destabilizing financial systems.

That left individual eurozone members exposed to brutal pressure by financial markets at a time when excessive private debt was turned into unsustainable public debt.

Almost 80 per cent of Africa's debt is owed to official institutions, about one third of which is multilateral debt owed mainly to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

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The financial and economic crisis is morphing into a sovereign debt crisis in advanced countries.

The eurozone debt crisis has worsened, and financial strains are rising.

First, these women tend to be awash in debt.

They will buy the new government debt and leave all spending decisions unaltered.

Investment banks commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.

All three unorthodox remedies have been used in past debt crises.

The country s sovereign debt should have been restructured without delay.

User Wuyue Sanren thought the move is a trick to get rid of the ministry's enormous debt

Russia's national debt in October 1917 had risen to 50 billion rubles.

We continue our work on settling the debt of African countries on a bilateral basis.

The 1932 default on Britain s WWI loans from America remains the largest blemish on the UK s debt history, but the background is crucial.