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
Ireland's debt could fall out of the top 5 if the country's growth outpaces spending, but for now, the Irish economy's meager growth ranks among the leaders in one of the worst economic regions on Earth. That's not a sign that this debt will ...
external debt-Q1 tally
GlobalPost - 5/21/2013 11:22:02 PM
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's external debt fell in the first quarter due to a weaker won, with the ratio of the short-term foreign debt against the total debt hitting an over 13-year low, the central bank said Wednesday. The country's ...
External debt, liabilities decline significantly
Business Recorder - 5/16/2013 10:59:20 PM
The public sector debt comprised government debt, IMF debt and foreign exchange liabilities. Repayment of SBA started from last fiscal year and the country was spending a huge amount of foreign exchange on debt payments. During the period under review ...
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 ...
Eurozone: Periphery Countries Restored External Balances, Recovery Follows?
econintersect.com - 5/22/2013 12:58:05 PM
Ongoing economic downturns have been the key driver of import ... The hope now is that the restoration of external balance in these countries will set the stage for meaningful recoveries. The debt burden from past borrowing remains, however ...
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 in more than 6 yrs in Q-1, helped by the depreciation of the Won and exporters’ reduced credit loans. The country’s short-term overseas debt fell to $122.2-B in Q-1 of the year ...
Erdogan’s IMF Triumph Masks Surge in Private Debt: Turkey Credit
Bloomberg - 5/14/2013 6:55:20 AM
“Turkey is a perfect example of the maturing of the emerging-market asset class,” Charles Robertson, global chief economist at Renaissance Capital in London, said by e-mail yesterday. “Once weak, vulnerable and dependent on external ...
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 ...
World Bank supports states’ borrowing
The Nation Newspaper - 5/19/2013 11:02:56 PM
Litwack advised those involved in managing debt issues in the country to keep track of “contingent liabilities ... the permission of the Federal Government and to service these external debts, deductions would be made from the state’s share of ...
Turkey pays off debt to IMF as private borrowings surge
Today's Zaman - 5/15/2013 8:27:12 AM
Yet, in some circles, the elimination of IMF debt was promoted as the country resetting all of its external debts, a common mistake. A look at the country's private borrowing figures will be illuminating. As major economies pumped out more stimulus cash to ...
DMO unveils new strategy to reduce growth of public debt
Vanguard - 5/19/2013 11:53:02 PM
“For the first time, the country has a medium-term debt strategy which ... by achieving an optimal mix of relatively more expensive domestic debt and less expensive external debt. Nwankwo said that the difference between the domestic and the external ...
S. Korea's foreign debt declines in Q1
Balita - 5/22/2013 12:50:55 PM
SEOUL, May 22 — 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 ...
Cost of servicing domestic debt too high – DMO
Punch - 5/17/2013 12:18:04 AM
Although she had championed the exit of the country from the Paris Club of Creditors during ... bond market to fund government deficits – the ratio of domestic and external debt stock as at the end of 2011 was 88:12, whereas the appropriate ratio would ...
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 ...
Atradius Collections Releases 7th Edition of its International Debt Collections Handbook
PR Newswire - 5/22/2013 7:21:38 AM
Atradius Collections, the global expert in domestic and international debt collections, releases the 7 th edition of the International Debt Collections Handbook. Two additional countries have been included, Bulgaria and Finland, increasing the number of ...
