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Whereas microcredit institutions’ business model depends on a very high repayment rate (often exceeding 98%), government-run banks and state-supported co-operatives tend eventually to write off their loans when elections come around, with state and national governments waiving poor farmers’ debts for political reasons.
First, potential growth in developed and emerging countries has fallen because of the burden of high private and public debts, rapid aging (which implies higher savings and lower investment), and a variety of uncertainties holding back capital spending.
Nor can it generate sufficient foreign exchange to pay its debts as they come due.
And, while fiscal stimulus is called for in the short run, the long-term outlook for Japan’s public finances is deeply troublesome, owing to the huge debts run up in the past.
Using the latter two types to impose "odious debts" on Africans undermines western lenders' credibility concerning money laundering, good governance, transparency, fiscal discipline, and macroeconomic policies conducive to economic growth.
Repudiating unwarranted and unjustified debts would be consistent with economic logic and international law.
First, African leaders, who should repudiate these debts, are the ones who contracted them in the first place, with the obvious aim of enriching themselves.
The eurozone was founded on the “no bailout” principle: if member states could not repay their debts, lenders would bear the losses.
The states are not regulated by the federal government; they are disciplined by the knowledge that no one will repay their debts for them.
But, in the absence of a major unexpected shock, oil companies will remain under pressure to continue selling oil, even at low prices, as they struggle to service the large debts they incurred on investments when oil prices were high.
For example, the University of Chicago’s Amir Sufi and Princeton’s Atif Mian argue that credit expansion leads to nasty recessions, which emerge as soon as households, for whatever reason, lose access to the financing they need to roll over their debts.
Yes, inflation is an unfair way of effectively writing down all non-indexed debts in the economy.
Local governments are equally careless, often failing to service their debts.
Debt and America’s DeclineMILAN – Italians and other Europeans have serious problems addressing their own national debts, public and private, so it may seem immodest for a European to discuss America’s growing and grave debt problem.
America’s financial house had to be put in order, all debts repaid, and, as London had done for a long time, confidence had to be maintained, which meant guaranteeing the dollar’s convertibility into gold.
Over-indebtedness, together with coercive recovery practices, led to a series of widely publicized suicides, spurring local officials to implement new restrictions on MFIs and discourage borrowers from repaying their debts.
Europe’s Brush with DebtMUNICH – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and his Italian counterpart, Matteo Renzi, have declared – or at least insinuated – that they will not comply with the fiscal compact to which all of the eurozone’s member countries agreed in 2012; instead, they intend to run up fresh debts.
Europe has so far stuck to the mutualization model, in which individual states’ debts are underwritten by a common central bank or fiscal bailout system, ensuring security for investors and largely eliminating interest-rate spreads among countries, regardless of their level of indebtedness.
The alternative – the liability model – requires that each state take responsibility for its own debts, with its creditors bearing the costs of a default.
Furthermore, the ECB should reintroduce the requirement that TARGET2 debts be repaid with gold, as occurred in the US before 1975 to settle balances among the districts of the Federal Reserve System.
But the organization’s secrecy, its intimidation of the rivals to those who run it, and its reliance on favors, bribes, and called debts do show disturbing parallels to the world of organized crime.
On the demand side, e-SDR-denominated long-term bank debts could be used by pension funds, insurance companies, and sovereign-wealth funds.
In the eurozone, the main source of disagreement has been how debts in need of refinancing were incurred – that is, whether they contravened agreed debt limits.
Barter and arrears (ie, debts between factories and firms), long major concerns, are also diminishing.
A similar deal is likely in the Paris Club for the regulation of debts to governments.
Factors affecting the transmission mechanism in the candidate countries--legal frameworks, the degree of financial depth, the maturity of debts, and the availability of non-bank financing--differ markedly from those in the current EMU members.
But forgiving poor countries’ debts without agreeing on a better framework for future aid flows is an empty gesture.
But no one really expects the debts to be paid anyway.
So now rich countries want to feel magnanimous for “forgiving” debts that should have been given as outright grants in the first place.
At the same time, real-estate developers who have borrowed heavily from shadow-banking institutions, based on the assumption that property prices would continue to rise steadily, may struggle to repay their debts, with a sharp decline in prices inevitably leading to defaults.
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