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How to Default on Sovereign Debt

She always brings her a present, hasn't missed a year.

At that point, they will default.

The quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations.

Borrowing countries such as Argentina or the Ottoman Empire regularly defaulted.

LONDON Everyone knows that Greece will default on its external debt.

Currently, Africa is lagging behind in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

Obviously, markets still believe that Greece will default on its debt.

On a national scale, increases in crop yields are falling behind rates of increase in fertilizer use.

Normally, developed countries never default, because they can always print money.

But the legacy is a more efficient stock of capital equipment.

Myanmar is pleased to note that, in all of this, the region of Asia and the Pacific has not been left behind.

That experience showed that countries default when the costs are lower than the benefits.

When girls are left behind the enormous social and economic benefits of girls' education are lost to the entire community.

The alarming tendencies we are seeing today may be short lived and with no serious consequences.

The markets are fully aware that Greece, being insolvent, will eventually default.

Insofar as some Chinese firms do lag behind Western standards, they are becoming increasingly sensitive to foreign criticism and are learning fast.

It cannot lag behind these important events, which have aroused such hope among the peoples of the Middle East.

For years, academics have debated whether culture, institutions, ideology, or resources cause some countries to lag behind.

Cases where a State fails to enact implementing legislation or refuses to cooperate may be reported to the Security Council (rule 61).

So long as the US government does not default, whatever losses China may experience from the downgrade will be small.

While psychiatry may be leading the debate about these problems, other medical specialties cannot be far behind.

But countries and their public services cannot default without inflicting severe pain on entire populations.

In January 2011, Côte d Ivoire became the first country to default on its sovereign debt since Jamaica in January 2010.

Indeed, even in countries with high primary school completion rates, many young people do not attend secondary school.

A State that has ratified all the instruments may consistently default on every one of its reports, yet this global lack of compliance may fail to attract sufficient attention to sound the alarm.

Unless we all do so, there is a real danger that Africa will continue to lag behind the rest of the world, despite the best efforts of its leaders and peoples.

Indeed, in the US today, hundreds of thousands possibly two million households are bankrupt and thus will default on their mortgages.

Countries never default because they can t pay their debts there are always ways to decrease expenditures or raise taxes.

The immunization coverage across regions ranges from 81 per cent to 93 per cent, with the central and western regions lagging behind.

The French government, on the other hand, fears that the Germans commitment to eurozone stability is a ploy aimed at pushing France into a corner and leaving it behind economically.

If it is to preserve the respect and to justify the hopes of peoples, the United Nations must not lag behind the swift and ever accelerating changes taking place in the world today.

As these unique operations stemming from the so called Chapter VI and Half grow in size and complexity, the Headquarters structures devoted to their administration have lagged behind.

NEW YORK The Greek euro tragedy is reaching its final act it is clear that either this year or next, Greece is highly likely to default on its debt and exit the eurozone.

But education outcomes lag behind when it comes to secondary and tertiary education, which are becoming increasingly necessary to thrive in today s world.

Its wages and prices must lag behind its competitors for years, while its economy goes through an extended slump until a new equilibrium is found.

He noted that Non Self Governing Territories in the Pacific and the Caribbean had undertaken similar initiatives and the United States Virgin Islands should do no less.

For Tigar, deleveraging has meant that banks that had pursued its business only a couple of years ago have suddenly cut lending even though the company never missed a debt payment.

The amendments introduce procedures for dealing with situations of States parties that have failed to honour their reporting obligations for a long time, or that have chosen to request a postponement of their scheduled appearance before the Committee at short notice.

There is also need for greater insight into those areas and subpopulations that have been neglected in the past or where change is lagging, to help in devising appropriate action to speed the process of demographic transition.

The disposable (after tax and transfer) incomes of poor families in the US have trailed those of their counterparts in other developed countries for decades. Now the US middle class is also falling behind.

LONDON Everyone knows that Greece will default on its external debt. The only question concerns the best way to arrange it so that no one really understands that Greece is actually defaulting.

If this first option is not taken the likely outcome, given the current game of political brinkmanship Greece will default. But that could set the stage for the second option, which I would call the New Beginning Program.

As West European economic growth accelerated during the Industrial Revolution, sea trade and colonialism which had begun in the second half of the 18th century, Russia began to lag ever farther behind, undermining its ability to field strong armies.