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

Debt to GDP ratios tend to increase for countries that are in economic trouble.

Only the United States can indefinitely print its own currency and increase its debt.

Corroborating statistical evidence shows that high deficits and debt increase long run interest rates.

After all, the consequences of failing to increase the debt ceiling would be catastrophic.

The most direct adverse impact of deflation is to increase the real value of debt.

Donors must also increase official development assistance (ODA) and provide Africa with greater debt relief.

To move forward, we should redefine debt sustainability as the level of debt that allows a country to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and reach 2015 without an increase in debt ratios.

But, after interest rates are liberalized, the public sector s debt GDP ratio is expected to increase substantially.

And reducing debt ratios by saving more leads to the paradox of thrift too fast an increase in savings deepens the recession and makes debt ratios even worse.

Debt relief had the potential to substantially increase investment in sectors that were crucial for achieving development goals.

To move forward, the Secretary General proposed that debt sustainability should be redefined as the level of debt that allowed a country to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and reach 2015 without an increase in its debt ratios.

Several speakers expressed their support for the Secretary General's proposal to define debt sustainability as the level of debt that would allow a country to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 without an increase in debt ratios.

In contrast, countries in Europe and Central Asia experienced a 7.8 per cent increase in their total debt stock, as compared with a 20.7 per cent increase in 2003.

In short, Latin American countries have used their additional export revenues to pay down debt and increase social spending.

Moreover, the relative increase in debt (leverage) in the financial system was similar on both sides of the Atlantic.

The increase in aid, however, must not be limited to debt forgiveness, technical assistance and emergency and humanitarian relief.

Fiscal adjustment was also necessary to limit external vulnerability and the increase of external debt in relation to GDP.

The budget cost increases every year, as more of the debt rolls over and that does not include agency debt and the large increase in the current account deficit to pay China, Japan, and other foreign holders of US debt.

We welcome the increase in debt relief, including debt cancellation, for many of the most highly indebted poor countries, as well as the renewed focus on Africa and on HIV AIDS.

In Brazil, the consequences of those crises were an inflationary spiral and an increase in foreign debt to stratospheric levels.

An increase in fiscal deficits and public debt places negative pressure on financial systems and growth prospects, eroding country creditworthiness.

In order to avoid debt servicing difficulties and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 without an increase in debt ratios, exclusively grant based finance for most HIPCs is called for.

But that simply shifts leverage to the public sector, with any reduction in the ratio of private debt to GDP more than matched by an increase in the public debt ratio witness the Irish and Spanish governments high and rising debt burdens.

In this regard, the task force deems it necessary to define debt sustainability within a State context with a view to attaining a level of debt that allows countries to achieve the Goals and avoid an increase in debt ratios by 2015.

This distinction between foreign and domestic debt is particularly important in the context of the euro crisis, because eurozone countries cannot devalue to increase exports if this is required to service foreign debt.

That is because an increase in the inflation rate causes interest rates on new debt to rise by an equal amount.

36. We stress that in assessing debt sustainability criteria, consideration be given to allowing a country to achieve its national development goals, including the MDGs in 2015, without an increase in its debt ratios.

The public losses are massive in comparison roughly 6 trillion, if we limit ourselves just to the increase in federal government debt.

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

Even so, a depreciated rupee will increase the burden of repaying foreign debt, and deepen the woes of domestic companies and banks.

For example, many governments have implemented regulations for banks and insurance companies that increase the amount of government debt that they own.

27. Invites the international community, including the United Nations system, to continue efforts to increase financial support in respect of capacity building activities for developing countries in the area of debt management and debt sustainability, and encourages countries to create transparent and accountable debt management systems

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.

Moreover, if the stimulus succeeds and leads to an early recovery, the additional income gained may more than offset the increase in debt.

A direct effect of the higher interest rate would be to increase the budget deficit and the rate of growth of government debt.

Thirdly, the increase in ODA since 2000 has largely been the result of resources targeted for emergency assistance, debt relief and technical assistance.

The cost is also the increase in net federal government debt held by the private sector the most accurate measure of true government indebtedness.

In fact, there is a gradual and smooth decline in growth rates as debt GDP ratios increase 80 looks only trivially better than 100 .

Even before this financial crisis, America s national debt was scheduled to increase from 5.7 trillion in 2001 to more than 9 trillion this year.

In addition to favouring an increase in aid, Slovakia also supports further reform of trade relations as well as debt relief for poor countries.

It had been estimated that every percentage point increase in debt service in low income countries reduced public investment by about 0.2 per cent.

MILAN A rapid and large increase of government debt has been a general phenomenon in the advanced countries since the 2007 09 crisis for the first time, the average debt GDP ratio for OECD countries has surpassed 100 .

That means emergency measures designed to write off a sizeable proportion of the debt, provide new credits, massively increase assistance to meet the most urgent social needs and, in particular, to increase access to food, water and energy.

It is likely to rise to more than 60 of GDP by the end of 2010, with the debt to GDP ratio continuing to increase.