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With a debt to GDP ratio of 200 , the higher interest rate would eventually raise the government s interest bill by about 4 of GDP.

The difference between the overall deficit and the primary deficit implies that the interest on the Greek national debt this year will be 4.1 of GDP.

What matters to Japanese investors is the overall return in yen terms, not simply the difference in interest rates.

A higher rate of expected inflation would also cause the total nominal rate to be greater than 5 .

Senegalese Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye has cited high interest rates as a major impediment to GDP growth.

Such circumstances include, first, a high debt GDP ratio, with rising interest rates impeding growth.

But, after interest rates are liberalized, the public sector s debt GDP ratio is expected to increase substantially.

For the Italian state, interest rate convergence brought a medium term reduction in debt service payments of up to 6 of GDP.

The margin of error stood at approximately 8 per cent.

A key parameter for determining the long run sustainability of public debt is the gap between interest rates and the nominal GDP growth rate.

After all, if a country s debt GDP ratio is to decline without austerity, the interest rate that it pays on its debt must be lower than its GDP growth rate.

When the markets see that coming, they will drive Italy s sovereign interest rates even lower. Given Italy s very large national debt, interest payments add more than 5 of GDP to the fiscal deficit.

The change in a country s debt burden reflects the size of its primary budget balance (the balance minus interest payments) as a share of GDP, as well as the difference between its borrowing costs and its GDP growth rate.

Although it is difficult to anticipate how high long term interest rates will eventually rise, the large budget deficit and the rising level of the national debt suggest that the real rate will be higher than 2 . A higher rate of expected inflation would also cause the total nominal rate to be greater than 5 .

In 2003, Mexico successfully issued new bonds which included CACs without incurring an increase in spreads, thus paving the way for a more frequent inclusion of CACs in emerging market bond issues.

The declining average is partly due to a furiously trading fringe.

But Israel s margin for strategic error will shrink even further.

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Higher real interest rates discourage credit financed purchases by households and businesses. This weakens overall demand, leading to steeper declines in prices.

At the very least, the combination of higher interest rates in the shadow banking sector and weaker nominal GDP growth undermines borrowers debt repayment capacity.

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Countries with European style growth rates could handle debt obligations of 60 of GDP when interest rates were low. But, with debts in many countries rising to 80 or 90 of GDP, and with today s low interest rates clearly a temporary phenomenon, trouble is brewing.

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On the sidelines of CRIC 3, a large number of parallel and side events were also held.

If Greece had to borrow at the market interest rate on ten year bonds, its deficit would rise by 6.5 of the Greek government debt or 11 of GDP.

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Benchmark policy rates are currently below headline inflation in India, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. They are only slightly positive in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

But, as the overall economy of the euro zone improves, the ECB will start to reduce liquidity and raise the short term interest rate, which will be more appropriate for some countries than for others.

If nominal interest rates are lower than the real return on investment associated with GDP growth the result is financial repression and increased income and wealth inequality.

The margin for macroeconomic, prudential, and operating error is similarly small.

To define an interest rate fully, allowing comparisons with other interest rates, both the interest rate and the compounding frequency must be disclosed.

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The global financial crisis has served to show that there is little tolerance nowadays for people who cheat.

They were sufficiently flexible to leave a wide margin for manoeuvre in their implementation by States.

Indeed, other things being equal, had the interest rate not declined, Italy would have had a public finance deficit of 11 of GDP in 2004 rather than the reported 3 , and its debt GDP ratio would, of course, have been much higher.

There is a common sense consensus among borrowers in China, as well as in highly indebted advanced economies that raising interest rates would undermine GDP growth, employment, and asset prices.

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If they succeeded at all, high interest rates would have induced them to tighten their belts, and their current account deficits, which in the case of Greece and Portugal exceeded 10 of GDP, would have diminished.

Otherwise, the country will be condemned to shine weakly on the periphery of the global market.

The ECB is not the old Bundesbank, which had such public support and trust in Germany that it could get away with almost anything.

Its policy of opting out keeps Britain on the sidelines of the EU.

This device could measure the electric charge from as few as 1 150 ions with an error margin of less than 0.3 .

Nevertheless, the Secretariat must try harder to utilize the limited flexibility it had been given.