Sentences with phrase «debt of developing countries»

Thus the debt crisis at the beginning of the 1980s was a crisis involving the sovereign debt of developing countries.

There are several that hold high - yield bonds and emerging market debt, but I'm thinking of something more conservative, such as a fund that invests in the sovereign debt of developed countries.

Not exact matches

D'Alessandro counters that such poor international performance is more likely because of a lack of leadership, a problem extending back to the less - developed - country debt crisis of the late 1970s, when many developing countries defaulted on their bank loans.

Unlike other developed countries, the bulk of Japan's debt (well over 90 %) is not held offshore but rather by its own citizens?

While the U.S. and Europe are currently grappling with huge debts, a lot of the developing countries had their financial crises more than a decade ago and are now less vulnerable to shocks.

Composition of debt (household, non-financial corporate, financial corporate, and government) varies by country, but the common theme is that developed countries are awash in debt.

In the third chapter of my 2001 book, The Volatility Machine, I explain the ways in which developing countries designed balance sheets that systematically exacerbated volatility — and which eventually led to debt - based contractions or financial crises — in terms of a framework that emerges from the work of Minsky and Charles Kindleberger.

A lot of developing country debt had been written down or was in the process of being written down, and relatively speaking debt levels around the world were low and rising.

If Country X is a developing country with insufficient domestic savings to fund domestic investment, net capital exports are probably caused either by flight capital or by the net repayment of externaCountry X is a developing country with insufficient domestic savings to fund domestic investment, net capital exports are probably caused either by flight capital or by the net repayment of externacountry with insufficient domestic savings to fund domestic investment, net capital exports are probably caused either by flight capital or by the net repayment of external debt.

Before the LDC Debt Crisis of 1982, for example, huge petrodollar hoards were recycled into developing countries, and these capital flows funded increases in consumption and investment that led to the large trade deficits that balanced the net capital inflows.

But while about half of African countries have a stock exchange, Horne notes that debt markets have been slower to develop.

However, developed countries always have higher levels of private debt than developing countries do, partly due to very low access to credit and credit cards in developing countries.

The rising U.S. federal debt burden now ranks the U.S. among the most leveraged developed - market countries, and puts the U.S. at increased risk of a sovereign - debt credit rating downgrade if the current trend continues.

At present this depends on the willingness of the poor in developing countries to sacrifice so that their governments can pay on their international debts.

Like many other developing countries, its growth has benefited from a confluence of external events, including a sustained increase in commodity prices and partial debt relief.

The 1980s African debt crisis was created by a variety of factors (much more complex than the commonly attributed «poor African leadership» theory), including irresponsible over-lending by private creditors seeking high returns, the tendency towards one product commodity economies, the targeting of developing countries for high interest loans, the global monetary shock of 1979 - 81, trade protectionism in Northern countries, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought of 1981 - 84, among other factors (see African Debt Revisitdebt crisis was created by a variety of factors (much more complex than the commonly attributed «poor African leadership» theory), including irresponsible over-lending by private creditors seeking high returns, the tendency towards one product commodity economies, the targeting of developing countries for high interest loans, the global monetary shock of 1979 - 81, trade protectionism in Northern countries, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought of 1981 - 84, among other factors (see African Debt RevisitDebt Revisited).

Building a fairer system examines how workers from developing countries become tricked or coerced into paying illegal and extortionate recruitment fees, and, once in debt, become vulnerable to exploitation in their place of work.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has announced Tanzania is to become the first developing country to have its debt written off under the international finance facility.

«When Nkrumah was doing investment in infrastructure, some people who are still existing hurled insults at him and told him he was destroying the country with huge debts, but Nkrumah was optimistic to develop the country because he knew he was investing in the people of this country, and so he provided the Akosombo Dam which is serving all of us today.»

The governor said debt profile of the state should not get anyone worried because even developed countries like the United States had incurred debts in the region of trillions of dollars.

Standing before a 40 - foot - wide photorealist painting of a cloud - studded skyscape, prime ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada and Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway pledged that their countries will slow fossil fuel use and forgive some Third World debt, allowing developing countries to grow in a sustainable way.

«In developed countries, only the factors around exposure to debt appear to be potentially important signals of impending debt crises.

17.4 assist developing countries in attaining long - term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries (HIPC) to reduce debt distress

Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest at least 35 % of its assets in equity and debt securities of issuers primarily based in qualified countries that have developing economies and / or markets.

In fact, their economies have grown more quickly than they have issued debt, leading to a substantial drop in their debt - to - GDP ratios.7 Although their budget deficits remain higher than that of the average developed country, they are now well below their rate of GDP growth (something many developed market countries can't claim).

Current Market Perspective: Moderately bearish based on three pieces of information: Our bottom - up security selection process is revealing few bargains; Total public and private debt in developed countries is unsustainably high relative to GDP and will require long, painful de-leveraging... Continue reading →

In markets for government debt, favoring the a priori safe bet of high - debt - issuer countries, such as the United States, Japan, and developed European nations, can be far riskier to an investor's wealth than interest - rate volatility or credit ratings may suggest.

There are a wide array of possibilities from investing in high quality bonds from developed countries to low quality debt in specific regions.

Granted, the Federal Reserve may soon determine that the debt binges of foreign developed nations, emerging market countries, global corporations and U.S. energy companies threaten the stability of the global financial system... again.

My guess is that government policy will have little to do with the turn, because the various developed countries are doing nothing to clear away the abundance of debt, which lowers the marginal productivity of capital.

The S&P Global Developed Aggregate Ex-Collateralized Bond Index (USD), which seeks to track the performance of investment - grade debt issued by sovereign, quasi-sovereign, foreign government, and corporate entities in developed countries, delivered a total return of 7.64 %Developed Aggregate Ex-Collateralized Bond Index (USD), which seeks to track the performance of investment - grade debt issued by sovereign, quasi-sovereign, foreign government, and corporate entities in developed countries, delivered a total return of 7.64 %developed countries, delivered a total return of 7.64 % in 2017.

The same predictive relationship is apparent for the broad investment grade bond market (U.S. Aggregate Bond Index), shown in Figure 3, as well as for 10 - year sovereign debt of other developed countries.

I've filed an update (link to come) that focuses on the arrival of Todd Stern, the United States climate envoy, and his blunt response to developing countries that are claiming the world's rich owe its poor a «climate debt.»

Further, climate finance must not add to the debt burden of fragile and highly indebted developing country economies.

And in Thailand, the CIF's Clean Technology Fund provided $ 4 million in debt, blended with $ 8 million of debt from IFC, to support a dynamic entrepreneur as she attempted to develop some of the country's first utility - scale solar plants and move this high - potential market off the ground.

We hold that the capitalist system and the developed capitalist countries as the main cause of climate change generated climate debt.

«The provision of climate finance from developed to developing countries is part of the repayment of the climate debt that developed countries owe developing countries.

A range of mitigation and adaptation efforts are required, including changes in lifestyle and unsustainable consumption patterns mainly in the rich, developed countries that have accumulated an ecological debt to poor communities in the global South.

Lidy Nacpil, director of Jubilee South Asia / Pacific Movement on Debt and Development — which joined the citizen groups in sending a letter to GCF board members raising their concerns — said, «We are organizations, movements and communities from developing countries whose citizens bear the brunt of the most harmful consequences of climate change.»