Prepayments involve paying off at par the outstanding stock of debt.

By June 2006, this effort was paying off.

Paying down private and public debt simultaneously depresses growth.

Moreover, the US is paying for these wars with debt.

To be sure, Iran s longstanding support for regional Shiite groups is paying off.

Efforts to reduce poverty and improve the lot of women were paying off.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

Or it could be a soft default in which Greece unilaterally services its existing debt with new debt rather than paying in cash.

The courage and audacity of the US government and its army was finally paying off.

They are more focused on paying down massive debt overhangs built up before the crisis than on assuming new debt and boosting aggregate demand.

They each do their own thing, flashing on and off, paying no attention to their neighbors.

Consumers are diverting what little income they earn away from spending toward paying down debt and rebuilding savings.

India's government debt exceeds 70 of GDP, so more than half its tax receipts go to paying interest.

Italians are in the habit of thinking that tax increases necessarily go only to paying off rich investors, rather than to paying for government services like better roads and schools.

The outstanding debt of all LDCs must be written off immediately.

Suppose my children have to pay off the debt to you that I incurred. They will be worse off.

Nicaragua has written off 72.8 per cent of its debt over time.

We reduced them through debt write off and debt relief, as well as through the method of reducing our own debts.

Both lenders and borrowers would be better off from a comprehensive debt cancelation.

A half century of working together, plus a decade and a half of adapting to new threats and demands, is paying off.

India did its part by writing off the debt owed by African countries under the HIPC Initiative and by restructuring commercial debt.

In the midst of a financial crisis, it seems unbelievable that European citizens will bear the financial burden of paying off China and India.

The transitional independent privatization agency proposed by Jean Claude Juncker for paying the Greek debt is not a good idea. First, it would at best aim to solve the debt problem it would not increase competitiveness.

EU member States recently agreed to support the G 8 agreement to write off debt.

His companions, however, remain unconvinced and seem resigned to failing to find an alternative to the neo liberal taxation model for paying the foreign debt.

Trapped in the aftermath of a wrenching balance sheet recession, US families remain fixated on deleveraging paying down debt and rebuilding their income based saving balances.

Europe means nothing but sacrifice northern Europeans paying for southern Europe s woes through large transfers, or southern Europeans repaying onerous and maybe impossible levels of debt.

When the bubbles burst, households understandably became fixated on balance sheet repair namely, paying down debt and rebuilding personal savings, rather than resuming excessive spending habits.

It has paid off its foreign debt and built up foreign currency reserves of 450 billion.

Southern Europe was experiencing a sell off of sovereign debt and a massive withdrawal of private capital.

An integrated asset liability structure is needed that also encompasses domestic debt and off balance sheet items.

Whenever they go bathing, they follow the same path, first raising concerns over what will happen if Argentina pays back its foreign debt, and then inevitably paying back the debt under strong pressure from the International Monetary Fund and the US.

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They perceive an underclass that they believe receives benefits denied to them and a thriving economy in the developing world that siphons off well paying blue collar jobs.

Research by the International Labour Organization indicates that young entrepreneurs have a significantly higher than average success rate and a positive track record in paying off microcredit loans.

Mr. Al Battawi (Iraq) said that multi year payment plans were a good method of paying off arrears and securing fulfilment of Member States' obligations to the Organization.

China must exercise the foresight needed to begin paying this debt now, when it is manageable, rather than allowing it to accumulate and, ultimately, threaten to bankrupt us all.

Why debt relief now? Liberia obtained its debt write off by initiating profound changes in its governance and economic management in order to provide the institutional capability to manage debt prudently and spend resources wisely in the future.

The write off of multilateral debt for the world s poorest countries thanks to Britain s leadership is nonetheless especially welcome.

This time I'm paying.

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When both bubbles burst, over extended US households had no choice but to cut back and rebuild their damaged balance sheets by paying down outsize debt burdens and rebuilding depleted savings.

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

But China s total public debt, including off balance sheet local government financing vehicles, probably amounts to around 70 of GDP already.