Example collocations logo

Debts in sentence

1153 examples of Debts in a sentence

As a result, Spanish banks typically make provision to cover 150% of bad debts whereas British banks cover only 80-100%, and Spanish homebuyers must pay between 20% and 30% deposit on a house, whereas 100% mortgages have routinely been given in the United States and the United Kingdom in recent years.
That may have spurred growth for a while, but when the bubbles burst, the financial system’s huge debts helped push the economy into a bout of deflation and stagnation from which it has still not fully emerged.
Powerful sugarcane cooperatives, led by major UPA supporters, supposedly drove the government to fix extravagant prices and write off sugar farmers’ bad debts, leading to over-production.
So the crisis caused the deficits and debts, not the other way around.
This is why recent proposals, such as the Franco-German Meseberg Declaration on eurozone reform, are based on a compromise: combining some degree of risk-sharing with measures to reduce risk and induce greater market discipline by, for example, restructuring debts.
Moreover, devaluation will impose heavy burdens on China, for example, it will certainly increase the cost of servicing China's debts and may also worsen the overall balance of payment.
While Venezuela’s government-run oil company continues to service its external bonds (which is why no default appears in the books of the credit rating agencies), debts owed to China are understood to be in arrears.
Most of the debts, it could be argued, are between different Chinese state entities – for example, owed by local-government financing vehicles or state-owned enterprises to state-owned banks.
Off-balance-sheet local-government debts are being transformed into state-guaranteed bonds, and the PBOC is lending money directly to commercial banks against the security of those bonds.
Because of them, we won't pay our debts or reform the financial system.
First and foremost, this is a crisis of an economic system which has defaulted on its internal and external debts.
The main problem in Russia's economy at the moment is that both Soviet and Russian borrowings have totaled 158 billion dollars, which means that Russia with its annual budget revenue of 20 billion dollars, is incapable of paying back its debts because, for the next 12 years, its annual debt-servicing payments are to be from 12 to 17 billion dollars.
The debts that have not been accounted for include the deferred costs of maintenance on roads, water systems, and 54,560 structurally deficient bridges, as well as the yet-to-be-built low-carbon energy systems necessary to mitigate the catastrophic effects of climate change.
To be sure, these debts are not solely federal liabilities.
However, because climate change and infrastructure security are national issues, rather than local, the federal government is ultimately responsible for that $11.8 trillion in infrastructure- and environment-related debts.
Yes, these are back-of-the-envelope calculations, but they point to an urgent question: Why isn’t the US counting its hidden debts?
Some debts are repudiated and high inflation rates (and the inflation tax) return, both of which help balance the budget.
Moreover, they would have to negotiate with the ECB and other European governments a plan for managing euro-denominated debts.
Egypt and Tunisia’s Divergent PathsCAMBRIDGE – It has been five years since Egypt and Tunisia underwent regime change, and both countries are still suffering from low economic growth, large fiscal deficits, high unemployment, and rising public debts.
That leaves only one solution: pile on new claims to such an extent that old debts appear paltry.
The Stability and Growth Pact was intended to keep the public debts of southern Europe low, and thus keep interest rates low by reassuring investors that national debts would never be allowed to rise high enough to generate serious inflationary pressures.
From one perspective, it is good that the euro zone's finance ministers are eager to keep their national debts low in the long term: it is a sign that the victories over inflation won in the 1970's will not be casually thrown away.
And, in May 2013, he reported that “The results of austerity had been “what any Keynesian would have expected: hardly any growth in the UK … in the last two and a half years … little reduction in public deficits, despite large spending cuts;…higher national debts… [and] prolonged unemployment.”
In the 1990’s, its corporate sector was plagued by “triangular debts” (when a manufacturer that has not been paid for its product is unable to pay its suppliers, which in turn struggle to pay their suppliers).
Later that decade, financial institutions were burdened by bad debts generated by state-owned enterprises.
China faces additional debt risks from contingent liabilities and inter-departmental risk conversion, especially in the form of implicit guarantees on debts incurred by local governments and state-owned enterprises.
In Southern Europe, public debts are so large that they will depress growth for years to come.
For one thing, the debts were enormous, amounting to over $100 billion (including accrued interest payments); indeed, Argentina’s was the largest external default on record until Greece’s recent restructuring.
Banks will become ever more risk-averse as they seek to hide bad debts and avoid write-downs.
Not only is such flexibility de facto limited by dollar debts;US monetary conditions, it seems, are transmitted to other countries quite independently of their exchange-rate regimes.
BackNext