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

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.

Zimbabwe is least advised to take any loan at the moment because the country s total domestic and foreign debt was US 7.1 billion as at March 31, 2011.

The banking sector s total external debt is 214 billion, of which 107 billion is due within a year (and 129 billion within two years).

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

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

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

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

First, total public sector debt (including state and local debt) is already nearing the 119 of GDP peak reached after World War II.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That is an externality by definition.

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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.

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.

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The world outside is very scary.

Second, if foreign debt is the real problem, the escalating debate about the Reinhart Rogoff results is irrelevant for the euro crisis.

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When a sovereign decides that its foreign debt is unsustainable, the government and its creditors have had to negotiate among themselves about what to do.

That way, the debt GDP ratio declines because the denominator (economic output) increases, not because the numerator (the total the government has borrowed) declines.

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Of the areas of public policy with high economies of scale or externalities, two stand out the common market and competition and foreign policy and defense.

Japan s government has a huge debt burden, and its consumption tax rate is far lower than the value added tax rates that prevail in Europe. At the same time, the effective corporate tax rate in Japan is higher than it is elsewhere, making it difficult for Japan to attract investment, foreign or domestic.

The world's indebted nations, unfortunately known as the Third World, transfer capital to the rich nations by paying interest on their foreign liabilities.

Japan s government has a huge debt burden, and its consumption tax rate is far lower than the value added tax rates that prevail in Europe.

He further went on to say that Syria would have to stay in Lebanon for protection of Lebanon until they are no longer needed and Lebanon asks them to leave.