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But banks were not lending the money made available to them, partly because they used it to pay down their own debts, and partly because of low demand for loans.
Our debts are clothed primarily in benign-sounding language like “pension benefits” and “health-care benefits,” not official IOUs.
By calling what’s being taken from the young “taxes,” rather than “borrowing” – that is, a promise to repay far more than what’s being taken – the implicit debts have been intentionally kept off the books.
They also reduce the burden of debts.
Countries that borrow abroad must export in order to service their debts.
The result was widespread defaults on foreign debts, financial distress, and the collapse of international capital flows.
Hungary's economy differs from other post-communist economies in two ways: the huge debts with which Hungary began the transition, and the open economy that these debts inspired.
Unlike Poland, however, Hungary never rescheduled its debts.
With huge private debts, falling house prices, and external claims on Ireland amounting to more than 10 times national income (according to the Reinhart-Rogoff database), there was never going to be an easy way out.
By nationalizing private debts, Europe is following the path of the 1980’s debt crisis in Latin America.
Finally, under the 1987 Brady plan, debts were written down by roughly 30%, four years after the crisis hit full throttle.
Only then can they collect their debts.
By restructuring a failed industrial firm’s debts, saving its profitable businesses, and selling its loss-making ones, bankruptcy can minimize a failed firm’s knock-on costs for its creditors and the economy as a whole.
Much aid, in fact, is simply the delivery of dollars for recycling to repay debts owed to the IMF and World Bank and rich-country governments.
The "donors" do not cut off aid flows because they know that their past loans would fall into default if new money is not delivered to the countries to repay the old debts!
For the poorest countries in the world, a bold cancellation of debts, so that new aid is not simply recycled for debt repayments.
While Japan’s demographic decline poses challenges, it may also imply some advantages: and Japan’s debts are far more sustainable than they appear.
Deducting both public financial assets and all the debts the Japanese government and people effectively owe to themselves, the debt level is only about 60% percent of GDP and not rising.
But this time, mismanagement of the financial sector had loaded huge debts onto households.
Inadequate financial regulation left Americans vulnerable to predatory banking behavior and saddled with enormous debts.
Decolonizing the Franc ZoneDAKAR – France is wrestling with a burden of debts and public deficits that led Standard & Poor’s recently to downgrade its credit rating.
The CFA franc was sharply devalued in 1994, and outstanding debts& were& reduced.
Another devaluation of the CFA franc today might deflate France’s debts to the franc zone and boost its African-based export industries, but it would worsen the& franc-zone& countries’ miseries.
Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company’s shareholders or partners were each liable for all of the firm’s debts, which severely restricted businesses’ willingness to borrow to finance trade.
Again, it was a point of honor for governments to pay back such debts as they were incurred, whatever the sacrifice to the country.
Until recently, the conventional view was that “mature” sovereigns always honored their debts, while only banana republics failed to do so.
The size of public debts, which had been ballooning in many countries during the crisis, together with growing competitiveness gaps between member states, began worrying markets.
In Latin America, that means an economist who worries about growth, employment, and exports, as well as about balancing the budget and paying debts.
Until now, the government has been able to finance its vast debts locally, despite paying paltry interest rates even on longer-term borrowings.
In the 1980s, those debts became unbearable.
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