(d) Debt burden

Africa needs debt cancellation, as no growth can take place with a heavy debt burden.

But this would still leave Greece with an impossibly heavy debt burden.

Cutting the burden of Africa's debt

A lower debt burden would certainly help Japan deal with its economic slowdown.

Equally worrying is Africa's unsustainable debt burden.

Taking note with great concern of the debt burden of many African countries, as debt servicing continues to drain the limited resources for development,

Indeed, increased debt servicing obligations resulting from higher interest rates, along with weakening export prospects, ran the risk of reproducing an unsustainable debt burden.

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.

These schemes imply socialization of debt taxpayers elsewhere in Europe would share a country s debt burden.

His delegation therefore supported the application of the debt burden adjustment based on the debt stock approach.

The latest package to cope with Greece s insolvency offers a bond buyback to lighten the country s debt burden.

History offers two clear lessons reducing public debt is incredibly difficult without growth, and increasing growth is incredibly difficult with a huge burden of public debt.

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Kenya continues to struggle with its huge debt burden, with about 30 per cent of all our revenues from the export of goods and services going to service the external debt.

Of course, many Americans recognize the scale of the country s debt burden.

And, without a return to growth, its debt burden will remain unsustainable.

Debt, however, is a burden imposed by current citizens on future generations.

Africa's heavy debt burden remains a major drain on its development potential.

There are also middle income, high debt developing countries that need a reprieve from the debt burden they face.

The debt burden adjustment was an integral part of the scale methodology, for external debt not only affected a country's capacity to pay but also placed a significant burden on its economy.

With a smaller debt burden and interest payments, Egypt s fiscal position would improve significantly, and threats to economic growth would recede.

The debt burden destroyed consumer confidence and undermined the banking system, crippling the economy.

To address the debt burden problem, many African countries at first resorted to repeated debt rescheduling which focused on debt service flows, resulting in steadily increasing debt stocks and related service payments.

Had Greece quickly written down its debt burden by two thirds, it would have been able to shed its crushing debt overhang.

It cannot help that the government is simultaneously being forced to absorb new austerity measures to deal with the country s precarious debt burden.

The PIIGS debt burden is so high that robust economic performance is next to impossible.

Deflation increases the real (inflation adjusted) debt burden, as well as the real interest rate.

Once it became clear that the burden was unbearable, debt should have been cut expeditiously.

But if market nervousness persists and interest rates remain high relative to rates for secure German debt, the debt burden will rapidly become unsustainable.

First, different countries have different capacities to sustain public debt, depending on their initial deficit levels, existing debt burden, payment history, and policy credibility.

However, while the HIPC initiative has removed the debt overhang for many countries, the burden of debt service payments remains high (see table 1).

Children in the developing world were born with a burden of debt which must be reduced if they were to reach their full potential.

The conclusion is clear Greece s debt service burden is too large, and it must be reduced.

Of course, this may not be the breaking point beyond which the debt burden becomes unsustainable.

(d) The debt burden approach employed in the scale of assessments for the period 2004 2006

(d) The debt burden approach employed in the scale of assessments for the period 1995 1997

a rapid reduction of insolvent households debt burden, preceded by a temporary freeze on all foreclosures

The conclusion is clear Greece s debt service burden is too large, and it must be reduced.

In China, total public debt currently amounts to roughly 60 70 of GDP a manageable burden.

The dollar s slide after 1985 made the real burden of Latin America s dollar debt much lighter.

Recent studies show that once a government s debt burden reaches a threshold perceived to be unsustainable, more debt will only stunt, not stimulate, economic growth.

These countries face a burden of foreign debt estimated at 500 billion for poor countries that is simply incompatible with the pursuit of development goals.

This appears to be another replay of the Greek scenario, with targets for reducing the debt burden repeatedly missed, until more drastic steps become inevitable.