Recording of property issuances

(e) Review and processing of all United Nations administrative issuances (approximately 300 issuances)

administrative issuances

Interpretation of regulations, rules and issuances

From a practical viewpoint, there was a trade off between maximizing six week rule issuances and minimizing less than one week issuances.

(a) Interpretation of the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules and other administrative issuances

(iv) Interpretation of the Staff Regulations and Rules and administrative issuances (oral and

(iii) Drafting of policy papers, administrative issuances legal analysis and correspondence on administrative matters

(d) Revision and updating of the Organizational Manual of the Secretariat (ST SGB Organization) (approximately 20 issuances)

(x) Determining eligibility of staff for benefits and allowances in accordance with the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules and other pertinent administrative issuances

Instead, they focused exclusively on US foreign debt, ignoring household debt (mortgage and consumer debt), public debt, business debt, and financial debt.

Debt reduction should cover a greater proportion of the debt, in certain cases the total debt.

The debt strategy should include, among other things, a drastic reduction of debt and debt servicing.

Total concessional debt as a percentage of total external debt

But this is debt. 80 million of debt right here.

Current debt relief schemes cover only part of the debt of LDCs.

This policy will complement existing administrative issuances concerning avenues for the reporting of alleged misconduct that are set out in information circular ST IC 2005 19.

Unsustainable private debt problems must be resolved by defaults, debt reductions, and conversion of debt into equity.

The resolution, moreover, calls for the treatment of multilateral debt to alleviate debt and debt service burdens.

5. In the area of investigation the Division will investigate reports of alleged misconduct, malfeasance, deliberate mismanagement, abuses or violations of the United Nations regulations and pertinent administrative issuances.

The Under Secretary General for Administration and Management and the Office of Human Resources Management administer the application of the Staff Regulations and Rules and related administrative issuances.

Innovative forms of debt relief, including debt for equity swaps, debt for social development swaps, and debt for environment swaps, could be widely utilized.

Debt sustainability and debt relief

The demand for debt repayment confronts the philosophy of debt forgiveness.

Debt to private creditors as a percentage of total external debt

Multilateral debt accounted for 97 per cent of the total debt.

The debt relief measures had not benefited a large number of countries overburdened with debt repayment and debt servicing.

B. External debt and debt relief

Debt servicing accounted for the bulk of Africa apos s debt burden.

Get out of debt.

In the treatment of the debt of countries in debt crisis, international policy has evolved very considerably, particularly as regards commercial bank debt.

Fifth, debt burdens that cannot be eased by growth, savings, or inflation must be rendered sustainable through orderly debt restructuring, debt reduction, and conversion of debt into equity.

But, while debt forgiveness benefits holders of both equity and debt, debt holders don t voluntarily agree to it for two reasons.

Options for lower debt burdens on Governments of heavily indebted developing countries include debt cancellation and debt swaps for sustainable development.

60. Debt relief measures should also be applied to multilateral debt, which currently accounted for much of the huge debt burden of many countries.

More debt relief encompassing more countries and more debt (including bilateral debt) is needed.

Sub Saharan African debt accounted for 12 per cent of the total volume of external debt of developing countries it was, however, not the volume of debt that caused the problem but the burden of debt service payments.

Debt sustainability should be redefined as the level of debt consistent with achieving the Millennium Development Goals without creating new debt obligations.

Debt

The benefits of debt relief do not increase linearly with the amount of debt servicing reduced they materialize when debt reduction exceeds a critical mass.

The Moral Economy of Debt

The American Way of Debt

Servicing of external public debt

Group of 77 (on debt)

External debt (billions of dollars