Definition: This entry gives the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
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The World's 5 Most Debt-Ridden Countries
The Motley Fool - 5/18/2013 3:47:28 PM
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external debt-Q1 tally
GlobalPost - 5/21/2013 10:53:24 PM
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's external debt fell to an over 1-year low in the first quarter as the local currency's decline to the dollar undercut the value of foreigners' bond holdings, the central bank said Wednesday. The country's ...
External debt servicing exceeds $4.6 billion
Business Recorder - 5/19/2013 10:55:46 PM
The country's total external debt servicing crossed $4.6 billion mark during first nine months of current fiscal year, ie, 2012-13 (FY13), mainly due to repayment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "The higher external debt servicing is owing to ...
Fall in external debt and liabilities
Business Recorder - 5/19/2013 10:55:46 PM
Decline in overall stock of external debt and liability is normally considered a healthy development for a country. Seen against this background, the news in the Business Recorder on 17th May, 2013 that stock of external debt and liabilities of the country ...
South Korea Q-1 Short Term Debt at Lowest Level in 6 + Yrs
Live Trading News - 5/22/2013 10:34:55 AM
South Korea’s short-term external debt fell to the lowest level ... falling below the 30% range for the 1st time since Ys 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Fearing the recurrence of the sudden, destabilizing outflows seen in Y 2008, the authorities have ...
World Bank supports states’ borrowing
The Nation Newspaper - 5/20/2013 1:04:37 AM
The World Bank is not opposed ... debts are becoming clearer since the Debt Management Office (DMO) started monitoring” the nation’s debts. Litwack advised those involved in managing debt issues in the country to keep track of “contingent liabilities ...
Nigeria Switching to Foreign Debt to Lower Costs
Voice of America - 5/20/2013 1:21:56 PM
LAGOS — Nigeria will increase the amount it borrows overseas to around 40 percent of all debt over the next three to five years, from 12 percent currently, to lower its funding costs, the head of the debt office said on Monday. DMO Director General ...
Pakistan's new government must put development before debt repayment
The Guardian - 5/22/2013 2:49:38 AM
Given the scale of problems Pakistan faces, is it possible that a sovereign economic agenda could find its way on to the ... new sources of revenue to start building an alternative development path – based on redistributive taxes from wealthy ...
Rising debt and falling aid force poor countries to cut spending on health and farmers
Oxfand - 5/16/2013 8:47:30 AM
Fears about rising debt, combined with recent aid cuts ... infrastructure finance initiatives and domestic and external commercial bonds. Matthew Martin, Director of DFI, said: “Developing countries have made huge efforts to overcome the economic crisis ...
Turkish dollar, euro debt to join some Barclays global indices June 1
Reuters - 5/22/2013 4:25:40 PM
Barclays will include 24 Turkish sovereign hard currency bonds with a market value of $57.2 billion in its Global Aggregate Index, a spokeswoman for the bank said on Wednesday. Turkey will comprise 0.14 percent of the index. Barclays does not ...
Debt financing by pension funds a steadily growing business
Financial Post - 5/22/2013 3:21:15 PM
$1.25-billion (with a 3.24% coupon and a maturity date of Jan. 25 2016); $750-million (4.31% and Jan. 25, 2021); and $600-million (3.64% and May 9 2018.) Among the others the Caisse de depot’s CDP Financial Inc. has one issues that’s ...
With Austerity Under Fire, Countries Seek a More Balanced Solution
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu - 5/22/2013 8:21:54 PM
With debt levels well above that theoretical "tipping point" in many countries -- it now stands at 105% of GDP in the U.S. and more than 230% in Japan, while troubled European countries such as Greece and Italy have debt-to-GDP ratios of roughly ...
Africa: Rising Debt and Falling Aid Force Poor Countries to Cut Spending On Health and Farmers
AllAfrica - 5/16/2013 11:24:59 AM
Fears about rising debt, combined with recent aid cuts mean they are now cutting spending. Cuts make the situation worse ... Investment in agriculture must focus on supporting small-scale farmers to improve the food security and livelihoods of those ...
Cost of servicing domestic debt too high – DMO
Punch - 5/17/2013 12:18:04 AM
As Managing Director of the World Bank, Okonjo-Iweala had criticised Nigeria’s debt structure on the grounds that the Federal Government was crowding out private sector borrowers from the debt market. Although she had championed the exit of the country ...
Atradius Collections Releases 7th Edition of its International Debt Collections Handbook
paidContent - 5/22/2013 6:17:13 AM
Atradius Collections, the global expert in domestic and international debt collections, releases the 7th edition of the International Debt Collections Handbook. Two additional countries have been included, Bulgaria and Finland, increasing the number of ...
