And the government debt to GDP ratio is around 190 , compared to 120 in Greece.

Government debt will no longer be backed up by taxpayers assets.

Debt servicing represents a significant proportion of government expenditure.

Indeed, the government debt to GDP ratio is about 20 , compared with more than 80 in the United States, 160 in Japan, and 60 90 in Europe.

The National State debt is expected to rise by R14 billion. 36

At that point, government debt will no longer be backed up by taxpayers assets.

Remarkably, Japanese savers soak up some 95 of their government s debt.

Subsidies in New Zealand accounted for more than 30 percent of the value of production before reform, somewhat higher than U.S. subsidies today.

All central banks need to do is to keep printing money to buy up government debt.

And so as the government's debt becomes riskier and riskier, people start demanding higher and higher interest rate.

And we see right over here the debt to GDP ratio is a percentage so this debt is a percentage of GDP , it's well over 100 .

As a result, its economy would grow, and its debt ratio would fall.

It calls for solutions that guarantee income and insulate government expenditure and repayment of debt from swings in oil prices.

The eurozone as a whole has a debt to GDP ratio of 90 , which is high by any standard.

Chief among these changes has been the adoption, in most countries, of flexible exchange rates and reduction of external debt, particularly government debt.

Christians in Singapore constitute approximately 18.3 of the population.

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

But such a strategy can work only in countries where the duration of the government s debt is long and the interest rate on that debt is fixed.

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

With the Italian debt GDP ratio currently at roughly 106 , lower borrowing costs reduced the public debt ratio by more than eight percentage points.

The debt GDP ratio varies a lot by country.

Indeed, Japan s debt to GDP ratio is around 170 much higher than in Greece, where the figure stands at around 110 .

With the Lebanese pound (LL) pegged to the United States dollar, the prevailing very high debt to GDP and debt to export ratios make that economy extremely vulnerable to adverse shocks.

So raising inflation is no cure for the government s current debt or future deficits.

It remains to be seen whether the outcome will be decided on the basis of unemployment or state debt.

France s debt GDP ratio is already around 90 even if its 2013 budget deficit does not exceed 3.5 of GDP, its debt GDP ratio will have climbed to 93 by the end of the year.

Since July 1988, married couples apos pension has been 55 per cent of the basic government wage.

Debt sustainability indicators for Haiti are mixed. It is estimated that the debt export ratio in net present value terms is high (187 per cent), suggesting that Haiti's debt is unsustainable.

Recent studies show that once a government s debt burden reaches a threshold perceived to be unsustainable, more debt will only stunt, not stimulate, economic growth.

To pay back the debt without strain, we need a booming economy. Talk of government spending cuts is premature.

In 2012, French government debt levels reached 1.8 trillion euros, the equivalent of 90 of French GDP.

Each downward revision implies postponement of the date on which the debt GDP ratio will peak.

In part, the decline was due to increased holdings of foreign public debt relative to private debt.

Its debt to GDP ratio stood at 113 by the end of 2009.

The ratio of debt service to exports for these countries has declined to an average of 10 per cent.

In 2004 the ratio of debt servicing to exports was 10.0 per cent (see figure below).

The ratio of debt is measured against key variables such as GDP, export earnings and fiscal revenues.

In the US, the costs include more than eight million jobs lost since 2007, an increase in government debt relative to GDP of around 40 (mostly due to lost tax revenue), and much more.

And there's all sorts of crazy things that would happen, but at least now the government would be able to print its own money and use it to buy government debt, and continue to fund government spending and eventually inflate away its obligations.

In addition to estimating financing gaps and identifying the sources of financing (including different scenarios of debt rescheduling), DSA includes an analysis of debt dynamics to determine the stability of debt to GDP or debt to government revenue ratios.

Even if this widens the deficit in the short run, it will reduce the national debt in the long run.

There had been no progress on debt relief for sub Saharan Africa, even though the proportion of African debt was three times greater than that of Latin America.

Although the situation globally was better, in Africa the improvement in the debt servicing ratio had been neutralized by growing arrears in principal and interest payments.

We do not need to rely on such tricks to stimulate the economy and reduce the ratio of debt to income.

In January, the interest premium was 2.73 percentage points relative to German public debt.