(e) Debt service coverage

Level annual debt service

What would help is if their nominal disposable income rose relative to their (fixed) debt service.

Debt service coverage and bond interest

US states entered their new union with different debt loads and different capacities to service them.

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.

Lower interest rates on loans are available in capital markets to borrowers who have ample debt service coverage , which is defined as total revenues available for debt service as a percentage of the required debt service. The availability of ample

The portion of the assessment due for plan debt service, or assessed plan debt service , would be 10 per cent of 52 million, or 5.2 million.

Construction fund earnings would be applied to the annual debt service requirement, thereby reducing the net annual debt service to be met by the set aside procedure.

Haiti Stock of arrears and projected debt service, 2000 2005

Currently its debt service status amounts to 115 million annually.

The situation is further exacerbated by the country's debt service problems.

In Lebanon, persisting high levels of public debt forced the Government to direct much of its expenditure towards debt service.

Debt reduction, either through stock of debt reduction or debt service reduction based on a concessional rescheduling, will continue to be considered only in exceptional cases.

Today, sovereigns are more often democratically elected governments, but they still borrow. And they still occasionally find themselves in situations in which their debt has become unsustainable and they need outside help to continue to meet their debt service obligations.

The combination of all these factors contributed to an acceleration of government debt accumulation and made debt service difficult or impossible.

This will make it possible for the Greek government to service its debt.

Government debt service has in general become easier, owing to low interest rates.

The cost of debt service adjusts automatically, without the severe disruption that results from loss of confidence, crisis, debt restructuring, and so forth.

In some countries Argentina, Ecuador and the Russian Federation the debt crisis led to a suspension of payments or defaults on debt service.

Of the 42 countries qualified as potentially eligible for debt relief in September 2004, 27 had received debt service relief of 32 billion.

For instance, the SADC countries have a total debt stock of 78.1 billion, with an annual total debt service amounting to 6.8 billion.

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

But informal output is of little use for debt service if it cannot be taxed.

And if the homeowner goes bankrupt, the home can be sold to service the debt.

Indeed, these debt service costs alone account for 22 of the Egyptian government s total expenditures.

Foreigners cannot vote for the higher taxes or lower expenditure needed to service the debt.

The French government expects budget revenues to match all spending except debt service by 2014.

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

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

If the IMF terminates its current program, Pakistan will be unable to service its foreign debt.

For the country s first few years, debt service swallowed more than 80 of all federal revenues.

But governments can go beyond such methods, demanding that financial institutions maintain or increase their holdings of government debt, as the UK s Financial Service Authority did in 2009.

There have been reductions in the ratios of debt to gross national income and debt service to export earnings since 2000, due to strenuous efforts at repayment by developing countries and some debt relief.

If their export revenues were to plunge relative to their debt service obligations, the result could be crises reminiscent of Latin America s in 1982 or the Asian and Russian currency crises of 1997 1998.

Higher debt service costs require higher tax rates, which in turn weaken incentives and reduce economic growth.

In August 1982, Mexico shocked the world by declaring that it was unable to service its debt.

Annual spending on fixed expenses, such as debt service and pensions, is not subject to public participation.

Now, debt in the 28 countries for which relief has been approved has declined by an average of two thirds, while their expenditures on health, education, and other social services have risen to almost four times the amount of debt service payments.

These negative transfers have persisted, despite the commitments made by the developed countries to increase official development assistance, to reduce debt and debt service payments, to open their markets to the products of developing countries, and to encourage private investment in developing countries.

And, as debt burdens become heavier, public spending must be cut further and taxes increased to service the government s debt and that of its wards, like the banks.

Against the backdrop of better growth and export prospects in developing countries in general, the recent trends revealed a smaller accumulation of debt and lower debt service burden.

Given policymakers reluctance to contemplate write downs, specifically of debt held by official lenders, governments have been forced to levy high taxes to service their obligations, in turn depressing investment.

Goldman Sachs has calculated that France must become 20 cheaper to service its debt on a sustainable basis.

Total debt service for developing countries decreased by about 38 billion (10 per cent) from 2003 to 2004.