Matters had been further complicated by the debt crisis.

It has been two decades since the last global debt crisis.

With the onset of the European sovereign debt crisis in 2010, banks appetite for public debt fell again.

The debt crisis remains the most serious obstacle to our economic development.

But the Great Recession has caused public debt and deficits in many advanced economies to soar.

External public debt

My delegation believes that resolving the foreign debt crisis requires bold steps.

The external debt crisis remains a major hindrance to the recovery of our economies.

The national debt has grown too large for the National Debt Clock.

Servicing of external public debt

However, continuous overspending and a growing public debt led to a chronic fiscal crisis in the 1870s which severely affected defense budgets.

This, too, complicates the public debt dynamics and impedes the restoration of public debt sustainability.

The First School War (, ) was a political crisis in Belgium over the issue of religion in education.

The persistence of debt crises underscores the need to reform the international financial system.

We have learned the lessons of 1929.

The Second School War (, ) was a political crisis in Belgium over the issue of the religion in education.

Cleaning up high private sector debt and lowering public debt ratios by growth alone is particularly hard if a balance sheet crisis leads to an anemic recovery.

A similar pattern holds for public debt.

a Excludes official public debt.

C. Public debt in the ESCWA region

The current favorite bogeyman is public debt.

Public debt in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries

26. In that connection, the international community must satisfactorily handle the external debt crisis affecting the developing countries.

And it is in America s public debt that the debris of its financial system s broken promises are collected, just as Italy s massive public debt reflects its past national prodigality.

The total public debt of the country is about 72 billion.

Public debt in the more diversified economies

The build up of public debt in industrial countries (which was rising briskly well before the Great Recession pushed it to near unsustainable levels) reflects this kind of calculus.

In research that Carmen Reinhart and I have done on the history of financial crises, we find that public debt typically doubles, even adjusting for inflation, in the three years following a crisis.

Report of the Secretary General on the external debt crisis and development (A 60 139)

The restructuring of debt owed to private creditors was also an important aspect of external debt crisis resolution.

But the debate about austerity and the cost of high public debt levels misses a key point Public debt owed to foreigners is different from debt owed to residents.

It was compounded by the outbreak of the 1973 oil crisis in October of that year.

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This has given rise to a persistent crisis, described by the Secretary General as unprecedented.

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At the beginning of the current credit crunch, many historically minded people picked 1907 as the key precedent.

The question of debt sustainability analysis is also key to the resolution of the debt crisis of other low and middle income countries.

This view tends to ignore the link between the debt crisis, the paucity of resource flows on appropriate terms, and the adverse turn taken by the world economy since the early 1980s.

In any case, with very few exceptions, current real wage levels are well below what they were before the external debt crisis.

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

History offers two clear lessons reducing public debt is incredibly difficult without growth, and increasing growth is incredibly difficult with a huge burden of public debt.

The crisis led to a 30 percentage point jump in the public debt ratio.