It has nothing to do with taking on debt or tricking people about future taxes.

Taking note of the report of the Secretary General on external debt crisis and development,A 57 253.

We must differentiate legitimate debt from illegitimate debt, which means taking the problem before the World Court in The Hague.

Taking note of the report of the Secretary General on recent developments in the debt situation of developing countries,A 55 422.

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

A social cost benefit analysis (taking into account impacts other than on the budget) makes such expenditures, even when debt financed, even more attractive.

Banks themselves, however, are the heaviest borrowers, routinely funding more than 90 and sometimes more than 95 of their investments by taking on debt.

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

Indeed, even after taking on the entire national debt, their private wealth GDP ratios would still be higher than they are in some northern European countries.

The big question in Spain is whether, as in Ireland, the central government will allow itself to be gamed into taking on private (and also municipal) debt.

The country simply cannot keep on piling debt upon debt.

But their governments seem to be taking advantage of the bonanza to pay off pending external debt and increase their foreign reserves.

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Proposals on debt restructuring frameworks

Group of 77 (on debt)

There is therefore a need for further analysis of the debt sustainability concept, taking on board the views of other experts,32 and there is an obvious need for capacity building on this issue in debtor countries.

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

These subsidies are dangerous they encourage excessive risk taking and very high leverage meaning a lot of debt relative to equity for each bank and far too much debt relative to the economy as a whole.

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Group of 77 (on the draft resolution on debt)

Instead, Western prosperity relied increasingly on debt.

The debt we will carry on forever.

Group of 77 (core group on debt)

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.

Budget deficits automatically increase government debt, requiring higher future taxes to pay the interest on that debt.

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

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.

Had the ECB known this at the start of Europe s debt crisis, it might have resisted taking so many risks with its balance sheet and reputation.

With decentralization taking place in many emerging economies, sub national authorities are taking on more responsibilities.

Markets encourage the required debt discipline in a timelier manner by charging higher interest rates on government debt.

Interest rates on government debt are still low.

CAMBRIDGE Greece will default on its national debt.

Draft resolution on external debt crisis and development

Its effects on risk taking are debatable.

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

Thus, the Paris Club's Evian approach relies on IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis for determining the terms of debt reschedulings.

33 UNCTAD is implementing a project on development strategy and debt sustainability, which also integrates aspects of debt management.

For this to happen, there must be urgent action on various international commitments and sustained global partnership for providing resources, trade opportunities and debt relief measures to least developed countries, taking into account their special needs and vulnerability.

There have been many proposals on debt restructuring mechanisms.

Oral statements in plenary on CTT and debt sustainability.

Oral statements on global governance and debt and written statement on trade.

Investors were not worried about default risk on Spanish or Irish sovereign debt, or about Italy s chronically large sovereign debt.

It depends on us taking the third side.

The Paris Club has also recently allowed debt buy backs or prepayment operations.21 In 2005, a number of debtor countries offered a prepayment at par of whole or part of outstanding Paris Club debt, taking advantage of lower interest rates to raise funds on capital markets for that purpose or using their extra cash funds.

We heard a strong welcome for recent progress on aid and debt, although many members expect further action on debt, more quickly and in more countries.