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Brazil s foreign debt (US billions)

If foreign debt matters more than public debt, the key variable requiring adjustment is the external deficit, not the fiscal deficit. A country that has a balanced current account does not need any additional foreign capital.

If foreign debt matters more than public debt, the key variable requiring adjustment is the external deficit, not the fiscal deficit.

Five years on, public, private, and external debt are at record levels in many countries.

This development permitted South Korea to begin reducing its level of foreign debt.

In December 2001, the Government declared default on its external debt.

Our foreign debt, or more appropriately our eternal debt, cannot and should not be paid.

Gross foreign debt 225,6 216,9 209,9 210,7 214,9 201,4 169,5 172,5 175,9

Net foreign debt 189,3 183,9 174,0 172,9 165,6 148,5 115,7 86,7 66,4

Foreign debt has spiralled, severely restricting the flow of key imports, notably energy.

External debt had continued to grow, reaching 1.4 trillion in 1992.

This burden includes both public debt (owed by the government) and external dent (owed by the country as a whole to foreigners).

In Iraq, excessive external debt levels and massive war reparations are major obstacles to reconstruction.

It has paid off its foreign debt and built up foreign currency reserves of 450 billion.

Africa apos s external debt recorded an increase of 2.4 per cent and is now about 285.4 billion.

The fiscal deficit widened to 10 of GDP, causing government debt (including external debt), which had been falling steadily, to rise to 76 of GDP.

Its budget and current account deficits are large, public debt is high, banks are bad, and foreign short term debt is high relative to reserves.

Gross public and private external debt is below 40 of GDP, and much of it is denominated in rubles.

Urges the developed countries to write off the external debt of Mozambique in the light of its current effort to eradication of poverty.

For low income countries, external debt stood at about US 424 billion, of which US 356 billion were non commercial guaranteed debt.

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Indeed, Argentina s economy would be better off today if Argentina had borrowed in terms linked to its GDP decades ago rather than at an interest rate denominated in dollars.

Our external debt exceeds 4 billion, more than 3,000 of annual exports. Most of this is accumulated interest on loans borrowed by rapacious dictators of the past.

With the current account deficit now exceeding 5 of GDP, US foreign debt is rising fast.

Its foreign debt would have declined in line with its GDP, thus sheltering the economy from default and economic disaster.

Our external debt exceeds 4 billion, more than 3,000 of annual exports.

International observers estimated the Syrian Arab Republic's external debt to be 22 billion by end 2004, almost equal to GDP, whereas official sources reported much lower figures.

External debt debt stock as at 31 December 2003 US 9,935,130 million.

By 1992 Africa's external debt had reached 290 billion,

America s fiscal and external deficits will not disappear just because the chief magician at the Federal Reserve waves his wand and says abracadabra.

But consider individual countries some run a large foreign debt, while others maintain a large creditor position.

Europe s demands ostensibly aimed at ensuring that Greece can service its foreign debt are petulant, naive, and fundamentally self destructive.

The total external debt of low and middle income countries stood at US 2.6 trillion at the end of 2003, compared with US 1.3 trillion in 1990.

14. Debt remained one of the major obstacles to Nicaragua apos s economic and social development.

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

Demonstrators in Macedonia's so called Colorful Revolution have rejected the government's bid to increase the country's foreign debt, spurring further protests.

Major obstacles to economic growth in Kyrgyzstan are the narrow economic base, vulnerability to external shocks and high external debt.

The need to import energy resources had created an external debt that Ukraine could not currently repay.

Extensive external debt and debt servicing obligations continue to be important constraints on the advancement of the developing countries.

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For the first time in decades, Brazil has been able to take advantage of good economic times to reduce its external debt, thereby lowering the risk to lenders. Indeed, Brazil s foreign debt to export ratio in 2006 was the lowest in the past 50 years.

For the first time in decades, Brazil has been able to take advantage of good economic times to reduce its external debt, thereby lowering the risk to lenders.